Description |
1 online resource (xi, 99 pages .) |
Series |
Pitt poetry series |
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Pitt poetry series.
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Contents |
Xu Bing's flying phoenixes -- Workers and miracles. John Henry sleeping in high grass -- Where the steel of ploughs -- Preachers -- Houses of ice, 1969 -- The lay of paradise, 1970 -- A baby in the crash of '29 -- Mass production -- The wheel. Spirit boxing -- Morning shift -- The good traveler -- The bluesman speaks on original man -- Ivory soap, a whiteness -- The worker we named Freight Train & his revelation of Ezekiel's vision -- When they fired our magician -- Knowledge of silk -- Beatitudes, the merciful -- Handling the heaviness -- How to use a buck knife -- Beatitudes, the peacemakers -- When hard men love each other -- Freight train returns from the hospital -- Black scab -- A truck drive from West Virginia -- The good job -- The winepress -- Freight Train watches me do my taiji -- In Mencken's neighborhood -- Wheels inside wheels. When the farms give out -- Walk on, walk away -- A postscript to Giant -- Interiors, a miner's home -- Grabbing lunch in the morgue -- A nation of hands -- Ode to the wheelchair -- Get on up, now -- Whole cloth -- A legacy, southern kin -- The gray mare -- Blood of union of states -- Mr. Fugg's hardware store -- Making soldiers -- Ode ot the hard men -- The hipness of hips -- Coda. Repack room -- Where no good can live -- The architecture of factories, 1985 -- Ode to the righteous union -- Dear mystical reader. |
Note |
Print version record. |
Subject |
Spiritualism -- China -- Poetry.
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Identity (Psychology) -- Poetry.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
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Identity (Psychology) (OCoLC)fst00966892
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Spiritualism. (OCoLC)fst01130170
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China. (OCoLC)fst01206073
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Genre/Form |
Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
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Poetry.
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Added Title |
Poems. Selections
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Other Form: |
Print version: Weaver, Afaa M. (Afaa Michael), 1951- Poems. Selections. Spirit boxing. Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2017] 9780822964582 0822964589 (OCoLC)972676939 |
ISBN |
9780822982814 (electronic bk.) |
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0822982811 (electronic bk.) |
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