When the Tiger Weeps by Mike O'Connor

by Mike O'Connor

When the Tiger Weeps is a far-ranging journey—with autobiographical roots—through disparate cultures; a history beginning in the West with the American Civil War and culminating in the wisdom-sage tradition of the Far East. Along the way—in poetry, prose, and translations—the work dramatizes individual and collective responses to oppression—war, tyranny and social injustice—and the triumphs and tragedies of those responses. Looking from a distance at the world of humankind, even the tiger grows compassionate; even the tiger weeps. The book includes sections on Tienanmen Square, on General Grant in the Civil War, on Ishi (the last wild American Indian), on a logging truck driver who catapults down a mountain with no brakes, and on a young boy from Taiwan who sees a ghost.

Paperback

First published October 1, 2004

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