Afaa Michael Weaver

Timber and Prayer (eBook, PDF)

The Indian Pond Poems

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Weaver's life studies and lyrics are imbued with a vivid sense of language, a vivid sense of the world, a vivid sense of their inseparability. And his tonal rangefrom unabashed passion to the subtlest velleityis impressive indeed. This is a singular talent.Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 1995
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822978961
• Artikelnr.: 72254458

Autorenporträt

Afaa Michael Weaver is the author of numerous poetry collections, including Timber and Prayer: The Indian Pond Poems; My Father's Geography; The Plum Flower Dance: Poems 1985 to 2005; The Government of Nature, winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award ; and City of Eternal Spring, winner of the Phyllis Wheatley Book Award. He is alumnae professor of English at Simmons College in Boston. Weaver is the recipient of an NEA fellowship, a Pew fellowship, four Pushcart Prizes, and a Fulbright scholar appointment, among other honors. In 1998, he became the first Elder of the Cave Canem Foundation.