The government of nature / Michael Afaa Weaver.
| Author/creator | Weaver, Afaa M., 1951- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, |
| Description | 68 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Series | Pitt poetry series Pitt poetry series. ^A86836 |
| Contents | Buddha Reveals the Apocalypse to the Cowboy -- Evening Lounge -- The Path -- The Ten Thousand -- A Dream of Emptiness -- Tsunami -- Leaves -- Walking with Snakes -- A Monk's Ode to Guan Yin -- Guan Yin's Treatise on Compassion -- Damascus -- Flying -- If You Tell -- The Ancestors Speak to the Cowboy -- Interpretation of Tongues -- The Ancestors Explain How Envy Grew -- Scapegoat -- Elegy for the Appaloosa's Mother -- Against Forgiveness -- The Government of Nature -- For James -- The Pantry -- Germany, in the Fifties -- In the Park with My Grandchildren -- Remember -- At Lake Montebello with James -- Scrapple -- When My Heart Failed -- In Raleigh's Brownstone Hotel -- On Hearing Beethoven's Moonlight -- Looking Up from the Naked Bed -- The Touched -- The Untouched -- In Good Samaritan Hospital -- Driving South from Salem -- With My Family at Dinner on Easter Sunday -- Evensong at Christ Church -- Washing the Car with My Father -- Petunias -- Cold Mountain -- Passing through Indian Territory -- Predators -- Weeping Willow -- 1963 -- Drowning -- A Nightmare -- To Those Who Would Awaken -- The One Song of He Nan Monastery. |
| General note | Poems. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2014378691 |
| ISBN | 9780822962311 (pbk. : acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 0822962314 (pbk. : acid-free paper) |