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by: Li-Young Lee
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9780393065428
ISBN: 0393065421
Label: W. W. Norton
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 144
Publication Date: January 21, 2008
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Sales Rank: 34010
Studio: W. W. Norton
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Product Description:
A highly anticipated collection (including an audio CD) from one of the most powerful voices at work in America today.
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. Hardcover with audio CD.
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - weaker than the other volumes
Lee has always been a favorite poet of mine, I loved his first three books, but it seems like so many poets, his work falls off over time. I'm not sure why that is. And Lee is no exception, it appears his best work was his early work, though "To Hold," "Virtues of the Boring Husband," and "After the Pyre" are all great poems.
Rating: - An Appropriate Emphasis
this review by Leslie Adrienne Miller was featured in Gently Read Literature ([...])--
The opening poem in Li-Young Lee's most recent collection, Behind my Eyes, ends with the lines "While all bodies share/ the same fate, all voices do not," an appropriate emphasis for a book that comes with a CD of the author reading his own poems. Lee's work falls into the interesting gap between poetry for the page and poetry in performance; though most poets writing now know their poems will have ... Read More
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