Michael Weaver: 25 books

This is the second volume of a trilogy (the first was The Plum Flower Dance) in which Weaver analyzes his life, striving to become the ideal poet. In The Government of Nature, Afaa Michael Weaver explores the trauma of his childhood—including sexual abuse—using a "cartography and thematic...

Winner of the 2015 Phillis Wheatley Book Award (poetry category) This is the final book in the Plum Flower Trilogy by Afaa Michael Weaver, published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. The two earlier books, The Plum Flower Dance: Poems 1985 to 2005 and The Government of Nature, reveal similar...

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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....

Winner of the 2008 Paterson Award for Literary Excellence "Weaver has crafted a virtual planet in this book with plenty of alternate geographies for readers of all flavors and stripes. Marvelous. Huge. Prodigious.” —North American Review

When a corrupt U.S. Attorney General unleashes a global network of assassins to hunt down a woman who could destroy both his career and his life, two Mafia-connected men find themselves unwitting protectors of the innocent woman. By the author of Impulse.

The U.S. president has decided to turn an international conference on human rights into the scene of his greatest triumph--but instead is taken hostage by a group prepared to kill for world peace. Paul Waters, an intelligence agent assigned to protect the president, joins forces with his lover, Kate...

Substance use is very common among psychiatric patients. Depending on your practice, up to 50% of your patients suffer from an addiction that may be aggravating their primary symptoms. It is impractical to refer all such patients to addiction specialists, who are in short supply. This extremely practical...

Cross and wooden stake in hand, Dr. Gary D. Rhodes re-enters the sepulcher of supernatural cinema, casting his lantern's light on Universal’s 1936 classic Dracula’s Daughter. With fellow tomb raiders Tom Weaver and Michael Lee, he discovers long-forgotten lore, presented herein with the film’s...

Solve a mermaid's problem… Step off the edge of a roof… Dig up a grave at midnight… Take advice from a fortune cookie… Visit the last library… Meet a bridge troll… And more… In one instant, like a bolt of lightning, a single impossible event changes a person's life. And like the...

While largely forgotten in modern times, Hercules Collins (1646/1702) was highly influential among the late 17th and early 18th century Calvinistic Baptists of London. Through a biographical sketch and 35 sample selections collected from Collin's writings, Michael A.G. Haykin and Stee Weaver introduce us to the vibrant spirituality of this colossal figure.

The Winter's Tale re-imagined as a wilderness survival story. It's 98% Shakespeare's original, with changes to the character names, a few scenes re-interpreted, and a bit of shape shifting thrown in. The story concerns two generations of a family, beginning darkly with a husband accusing...

In a world of too many magics, Angar, the adventuring barbarian, finds himself on a scavenger hunt for a holy man, looking for some artifact known as Failing's Digit. He arrives in a seemingly peaceful sea-side town and is almost immediately hurled into bloody conflict with the Emperor's...

Some heroes seek a journey, and others have a journey thrust upon them. Our Hero is at the lowest point in his life, homeless and hitchhiking, stranded at the threshold of Taos Gorge in northern New Mexico. When he's picked up by an enigmatic, possibly insane Mountain Man who calls himself Bonneville,...