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Patterson Award winner Weaver here completes his "Plum Flower Trilogy," begun with The Plum Flower Dance: Poems 1983 to 2005 and The Government of Nature. The new work opens with a Chinese poem written by Weaver, an African American who found a spiritual home in China after visiting via the Fulbright Program. But its Daoist philosophy of acceptance is soon unsettled by self-awareness: "The tea comes/ with a young woman who stares at me, the black...Log In or Sign Up to Read More