Skip to content

Spirit Boxing
Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different

Spirit Boxing Paperback - 2017

by Afaa Michael Weaver


From the publisher

In 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.

Details

  • Title Spirit Boxing
  • Author Afaa Michael Weaver
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 112
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Pittsburgh Press
  • Date 2017-01
  • ISBN 9780822964582 / 0822964589
  • Weight 0.35 lbs (0.16 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.3 x 5.7 x 0.4 in (21.08 x 14.48 x 1.02 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Identity (Psychology), Poetry
  • Dewey Decimal Code 811.6

Media reviews

Citations

  • Publishers Weekly, 03/06/2017, Page 0

About the author

Afaa Michael Weaver is the author of numerous poetry collections, including Timber and Prayer The Indian Pond Poems; My Father's Geography; The Plum Flower Dance: Poems 1985 to 2005; The Government of Nature, winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award; and City of Eternal Spring, 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.
Back to Top

More Copies for Sale

Spirit Boxing
Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different

Spirit Boxing

by Weaver, Afaa Michael

  • Used
  • Good
  • Paperback
Condition
Used - Good
Binding
Paperback
ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
9780822964582 / 0822964589
Quantity Available
2
Seller
Seattle, Washington, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 4 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
€6.34
FREE shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017. Paperback. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
Item Price
€6.34
FREE shipping to USA
Spirit Boxing

Spirit Boxing

by Afaa Michael Weaver

  • Used
  • Very Good
  • Paperback
Condition
Used - Very Good
Binding
Paperback
ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
9780822964582 / 0822964589
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Seattle, Washington, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 4 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
€6.34
FREE shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017. Paperback. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
Item Price
€6.34
FREE shipping to USA
Weaver, Afaa Michael
Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different

Weaver, Afaa Michael

by Spirit Boxing

  • Used
  • Paperback
  • first
Condition
Used
Binding
Paperback
ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
9780822964582 / 0822964589
Quantity Available
1
Seller
San Francisco, California, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 1 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
€9.50
€4.65 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
Pittsburgh. 2017. February 2017. University of Pittsburgh Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9780822964582. Pitt Poetry Series. 112 pages. paperback. . keywords: Poetry. FROM THE PUBLISHER - ‘Afaa Michael Weaver is one of the most significant poets writing today. With its blend of Chinese spiritualism and American groundedness, his poetry presents the reader (and the listener, for his body of work is meant to be read aloud) with challenging questions about identity, about how physicality and spirit act together or counteract each other to shape who we are in the world.' - Henry Louis Gates for Baltimore Magazine. ‘Weaver explores and rethinks questions of identity-that great American subject. Over the years, he has listened to a chorus of other voices, the inflections of the past, as they have come together to shape and enlarge his own distinctive, musical voice. He has carved a unique space for himself in contemporary American poetry.' - Edward Hirsch on Timber and… Read More
Item Price
€9.50
€4.65 shipping to USA
Spirit Boxing
Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different

Spirit Boxing

by Weaver, Afaa Michael

  • New
  • Paperback
Condition
New
Binding
Paperback
ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
9780822964582 / 0822964589
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 4 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
€34.15
€11.90 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
Univ of Pittsburgh Pr, 2017. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 112 pages. 8.25x5.75x0.50 inches.
Item Price
€34.15
€11.90 shipping to USA
Spirit Boxing (Pitt Poetry Series)
Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different

Spirit Boxing (Pitt Poetry Series)

by Weaver, Afaa Michael

  • Used
  • Good
  • Paperback
Condition
Used - Good
Binding
Paperback
ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
9780822964582 / 0822964589
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Newport Coast, California, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
€38.61
FREE shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.
Item Price
€38.61
FREE shipping to USA