The government of nature /
This is the second volume of a trilogy (the first was The Plum Flower Dance) in which the poet analyzes his life, striving to become the ideal poet. He explores the trauma of his childhood - including sexual abuse - using a "cartography and thematic structure drawn from Chinese spiritualism.&qu...
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| Language: | English |
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Pittsburgh, Pa. :
University of Pittsburgh Press,
2013
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| Series: | Pitt poetry series.
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Table of Contents:
- Buddha Reveals the Apocalypse to the Cowboy
- Evening Lounge
- The Path
- The Ten Thousand
- A Dream of Emptiness
- Tsunami
- Leaves
- Walking with Snakes
- A Monk's Ode to Guan Yin
- Guan Yin's Treatise on Compassion
- Damascus
- Flying
- If You Tell
- The Ancestors Speak to the Cowboy
- Interpretation of Tongues
- The Ancestors Explain How Envy Grew
- Scapegoat
- Elegy for the Appaloosa's Mother
- Against Forgiveness
- The Government of Nature
- For James
- The Pantry
- Germany, in the Fifties
- In the Park with My Grandchildren
- Remember
- At Lake Montebello with James
- Scrapple
- When My Heart Failed
- In Raleigh's Brownstone Hotel
- On Hearing Beethoven's Moonlight
- Looking Up from the Naked Bed
- The Touched
- The Untouched
- In Good Samaritan Hospital
- Driving South from Salem
- With My Family at Dinner on Easter Sunday
- Evensong at Christ Church
- Washing the Car with My Father
- Petunias
- Cold Mountain
- Passing through Indian Territory
- Predators
- Weeping Willow
- 1963
- Drowning
- A Nightmare
- To Those Who Would Awaken
- The One Song of He Nan Monastery.
