City of Eternal Spring

This is the final book in the Plum Flower Trilogy by Afaa Michael Weaver, published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. The two previous books, <i>The Plum Flower Dance: Poems 1985 to 2005</i> and <i>The Government of Nature,</i> reveal similar themes that address the authors personal experience with childhood abuse through the context of Daoist renderings of nature as a metaphor for the human body, with an eye to recovery and forgiveness in a very eclectic spiritual life. <i>City of Eternal Spring</i> chronicles Weavers travels abroad in Taiwan and China, as well as showing the limits of cultural influence.