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The poet of rapture and tenderness" (Major Jackson, American Poets), Li-Young Lee speaks these poems with the intimacy and primacy of a whisper, as if from a lover to a beloved, or a believer to God. Each poem in The Invention of the Darling is a mysterious conjunction of spirit and matter, movement and stillness, the divine and the mundane, the sacred and the forbidden. They yearn for holistic union with The Beloved, every sentence another na...

Combining sensitivity and eloquence with a broad appeal, Li-Young Lee walks in the footsteps of Stanley Kunitz and Billy Collins as one of the United States's most beloved poets. Playful, erotic, at times mysterious, his work describes the immanent value of everyday experience. Straightforward language and simple narratives become gateways to the most powerful formulations of beauty, wisdom, and divine love.

The Undressing is a tonic for spiritual anemia, it attempts to uncover things hidden since the dawn of the world. Short of achieving that end, these mysterious, unassuming poems investigate the human violence and dispossession increasingly prevalent around the world, as well as the horrors the poet grew up with as a child of refugees. Lee draws from disparate sources, including the Old Testament, the Dao De Jing and the music of the Wu Tang Cl...

Li-Young Lee, poeta del silencio, creador que busca ensanchar su interioridad, muestra en El desnudo lo que Oriente da a la poesi¿a actual: erotismo sin tocar la carne, habla sin decir palabra, luz que se abre a las ma¿s profundas reflexiones del lector. Lee no teme enfrentarse al tiempo: «En compan~i¿a, suen~as en muchos otros: / El tiempo que no tienes. / El tiempo que sobra. / Y el tiempo que toma». Es real. Toma an~os al poeta llegar a est...

The long-awaited new poetry collection from one of the world's most acclaimed young poets.

A reissue of acclaimed poet Li-Young Lee's heart-wrenching memoir, with a new foreword by the author and never-before-seen photos.

Playful, erotic, and at times mysterious, Lees poetry describes the immanent value of everyday experience. Straightforward language and simple narratives become gateways to the most powerful formulations of beauty, wisdom, and divine love.

Contents I.Furious Versionis II. The InterrogationThis Hour And What Is DeadArise, Go DownMy Father, In Heaven, Is Reading Out LoudFor A New Citizen Of These United StatesWith Ruins III.This Room And Everything In ItThe City In Which I Love You IV. The WaitingA StoryGoodnightYou Must SingHere I AmA Final Thing V.The Cleaving

The long-awaited new poetry collection from one of the world's most acclaimed young poets.

Twelve extensive interviews covering twenty years of aesthetic and spiritual insights from a beloved American poet.

Table of Contents I.EpistleThe GiftPersimmonsThe Weight Of SweetnessFrom BlossomsDreaming Of HairEarly In The MorningWaterFalling: The CodeNocturneMy IndigoIrisesEating Alone II.Always A Rose III.Eating TogetherI Ask My Mother To SingAsh, Snow, Or MoonlightThe LifeThe WeepersBraidingRain DiaryMy Sleeping Loved OnesMnemonicBetween SeasonsVisions And Interpretations