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Timber and Prayer

The Indian Pond Poems

By Afaa Michael Weaver

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"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.

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.

Series
Pitt Poetry
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Published
April 15, 1995
Pages
136
ISBN
9780822955542
Collections
Poetry & Verse