Multitudes by Afaa Michael Weaver Sarabande Books, July 2000, $14.95, ISBN 1-889-33041-8
Afaa Michael Weaver's new and selected poetry collection, follows the poet's career across his five books published since 1985. His poems, grouped chronologically, reveal that, while his tools and conventions have evolved over the years, the voice is consistently that of a romantic who does not compromise strength for sentimentality. Poems such as the inaugural "Water Song" are marked by quiet reverence and explore an eternal present in which "The dead come back to old folk in the country to talk." Equally indicative of the poet's sense of spirituality is Weaver's incantatory …
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