<div>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, <I>The Plum Flower Dance: Poems 1985 to 2005 </I>and<I> The Government of Nature, </I>reveal similar themes that address the author’s 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 Weaver’s travels abroad in Taiwan and China, as well as showing the limits of cultural influence.</div>