{"product_id":"spirit-boxing-paperback-1","title":"Spirit Boxing - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAfaa Michael Weaver\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Spirit Boxing, Weaver revisits his working class core. The veteran of fifteen years as a factory worker in his native Baltimore, he mines his own experience to build a wellspring of craft in poems that extend from his life to the lives that inhabit the whole landscape of the American working class. He writes with an intimacy that is unique in American poetry, and echoes previous comparisons of his oeuvre to that of Walt Whitman. The singularity of his voice resonates here through the prism of his realization of self through a lifelong project of the integration of American and Chinese culture. The work is Daoist in influence and structure as it echoes both a harmonic realization of context and the intuitive and transcendent dance of body, mind, and spirit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Afaa Michael Weaver \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of numerous poetry collections, including \u003ci\u003eTimber and Prayer\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Indian Pond Poems\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eMy Father's Geography\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Plum Flower Dance: Poems 1985 to 2005\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Government of Nature\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award; and \u003ci\u003eCity of Eternal Spring\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 112\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.3 x 5.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 25, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47353635143929,"sku":"9780822964582","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/U0gQT8R_2e9780822964582_04985e4c-6633-4bf7-9792-e63fbb79052a.webp?v=1769825487","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/spirit-boxing-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}