When the Tiger Weeps Author: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,... more » 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.« less