Timber and Prayer: The Indian Pond Poems (Pitt Poetry Series) - Softcover

Weaver, Afaa Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0822955547 ISBN 13: 9780822955542

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995

Synopsis

"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 range―from unabashed passion to the subtlest velleity―is impressive indeed. This is a singular talent."―Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

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About the Author:

Afaa Michael Weaver is the author of twelve poetry collections, including My Father’s Geography, The Plum Flower Dance: Poems 1985 to 2005, and The Government of Nature. He is Alumnae Professor of English at Simmons College in Boston. Weaver is the recipient of an NEA fellowship, a Pew fellowship, and a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts fellowship. He has been awarded a Pushcart Prize and a Fulbright scholar appointment, among other honors.

Review:

"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 range―from unabashed passion to the subtlest velleity―is impressive indeed. This is a singular talent." ―Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

"The poems are challenging in that they are neither superficial nor immediately evident. . . .his authentic black voice invests every line with added meaning."
—VQR


"[Weaver] explores and rethinks questions of identity--that greate American subject. Over the years, Michael Weaver has listened to a chorus of other voices, the inflections of the past, as they have come together to shape and enlarge his own distincitive, musical voice. . .He has carved a unique space for himself in contemporary American poetry."
—Edward Hirsh

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0822955547
• ISBN 13: 9780822955542
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 136