Afaa michael weaver biography of barack

  • Weaver was the first African American poet to serve as Poet in Residence at Bucknell University's Stadler Center, and has also taught at NYU, City University of.
  • In The Government of Nature, Afaa Michael Weaver explores the trauma of his childhood—including sexual abuse—using a "cartography and thematic.
  • In The Government of Nature, Afaa Michael Weaver explores the trauma of his childhood—including sexual abuse—using a “cartography and thematic.

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    Afaa Weaver: Once upon a trauma

    Noted US poet and literature professor Afaa Weaver

    has found a kindred spirit in the people of Taiwan

    • By Ron Brownlow / STAFF REPORTER

    Afaa Weaver has much to say - about racism, poetry and how Taoist martial arts saved his life. But first he needs to eat. Ever the gentleman, he apologizes while sitting in the Leader Hotel's restaurant, though he's just finished four hours of Chinese class and looks beat.

    Fu Jen University is housing Afaa Michael Weaver - Afaa is an Ibo name a Nigerian playwright gave him - in this relative luxury because he's one of the finest poets writing in the US today, a child prodigy from Baltimore who dropped out of college and worked in factories for 15 years before publishing his first book. Weaver, 55, has been nominated for a Pulitzer, and his editor, who handles a roster of Pulitzer nominees, calls him "the African American successor to Walt Whitman."

    Weaver's poems have a visual, tactil

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    Intro

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    Lauren Cole (host): [00:00:01] Support for Rewrite Radio comes from the Fetzer Institute, helping build the spiritual foundation for a loving world. Fetzer envisions a world that embraces love as a guiding principle and animating force for our lives—a powerful love that helps us live in sacred relationship with ourselves, others, and the natural world. Learn more by visiting fetzer.org.

    The power of names, the many paths to poetry and playwriting and the creative life. A conversation with Afaa Michael Weaver on this week’s Rewrite Radio.

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    I’m Lauren Cole, a junior at Calvin College and a Student Fellow at the Calvin Center for Faith & Writing.

    On today’s Rewrite Radio, independent scholar Sarina Gruver Moore talks with author Afaa Michael Weaver about how his journey took him from factory work to a Fulbright—and the spiritual practices that helped him along the way. 

    Afaa M. Weaver is a poet, short story writer, playwright, and editor. Y

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    The Government of Nature

    By Afaa Michael Weaver

    In these nuanced, sobering, and beautifully cadenced poems, the poet tries to deal with haunting, mysterious voices of past, present, and future—whether of fear, anxiety, joy, love, or hope. Reconciling East and West, he achieves solacing harmony and tranquility. A marvelous work.

    Ching-Hsi Perng, President of Taipei Chinese Club, International PEN

    Winner, 2014 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award

    This is the second volume of a trilogy (the first was The Plum Flower Dance) in which Weaver analyzes his life, striving to become the ideal poet. In The Government of Nature, Afaa Michael Weaver explores the trauma of his childhood—including sexual abuse—using a “cartography and thematic structure drawn from kinesisk spiritualism.” Weaver is a practitioner of Daoism, and this collection deals directly with the abuse in the context of Daoist renderings of nature as metaphor for the human body.

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