The Plum Flower Dance: Poems 1985 to 2005

by Afaa Michael Weaver

Overview

Winner of the 2008 Paterson Award for Literary Excellence



"Weaver has crafted a virtual planet in this book with plenty of alternate geographies for readers of all flavors and stripes. Marvelous. Huge. Prodigious.”



—North American Review

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780822959793
Publisher:	University of Pittsburgh Press
Publication date:	11/20/2007
Series:	Pitt Poetry Series
Edition description:	1
Pages:	136
Product dimensions:	5.62(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

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.