Books : Book of My Nights: Poems (American Poets Continuum, 68)
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by: Li-Young Lee
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9781929918089
ISBN: 1929918089
Label: BOA Editions Ltd.
Manufacturer: BOA Editions Ltd.
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 64
Publication Date: September 01, 2001
Publisher: BOA Editions Ltd.
Sales Rank: 279627
Studio: BOA Editions Ltd.
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Book of My Nights is the first poetry collection in ten years by one of the world's most acclaimed young poets. In Book of My Nights, Li-Young Lee once again gives us lyrical poetry that fuses memory, family, culture and history. In language as simple and powerful as the human muscle, these poems work individually and as a full-sequence meditation on the vulnerability of humanity.
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Li-Young Lee burst onto the American literary scene with the publication of Rose, winner of the 1986 Delmore Schwartz Memorial Poetry Award from The Poetry Society of America. He followed that astonishing book with The City in Which I Love You, which was The Lamont Poetry Selection of The Academy of American Poets. Mr. Lee has appeared on National Public Radio a number of times and The Power of the Word, the PBS television series with Bill Moyers. Rose and The City in Which I Love You are in the 19th and 17th printings respectively, making them two of the highest-selling contemporary poetry books in the United States. Moreover, Mr. Lee's poems have been translated into more than a dozen languages. He currently lives in Chicago.
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Rating: - Melancholy
As a previous reviewer noted, the tone of this collection of poems is much more somber than his previous work. Li Young Lee continues to demonstrate his masterful way with words, but the feeling is serious and meditative rather than celebratory as it was in _Rose_. While I enjoyed his poetry immensely (particularly "My Father's House"), I much preferred the lighter, more joyful _Rose._
Rating: - One of America's foremost poets.
Li-Young Lee, Book of My Nights (BOA Editions, 2001)
Every time I find myself ready to crown a single person the foremost voice in American poetry (the candidate at present being Charles Simic), a book comes along by some other author I've forgotten who relegates the candidate to a shortlist. He undermining principle today is Li-Young Lee's Book of My Nights. I'd read The City in Which I Love You some years ago, thought it wonderful, and then promptly forgotten about Lee, who is of that ... Read More
Rating:  - A Lonely Messenger
Pick up this book and prepare to revel in several readings of it. Li-young Lee is a poet of profound force not so concerned with the effect of a poem as with its "center" as he would call it. In his past collections he has dealt with the theme of the literal father--knowing and finding him in the present self, and most of all, remembering him--and with the more mythical/religious father. It is this more abstract father that Lee looks to more and more especially in this, his third collection ... Read More
Rating:  - A melancholy poet of family ties
"Book of My Nights" is a collection of poems by Li-Young Lee. This book is part of the American Poets Continuum series. There is a melancholy feel overall to this book. This tone is established in the first poem, "Pillow," which mentions "discarded wings, lost shoes, a broken alphabet."
A number of poems deal with death or other forms of loss. As a whole, the book is dominated by references to family members and relationships. The most memorable of these family poems is "The Hammock," a poem ... Read More
Rating: - Must Have Reading
While we may never feel the rush we felt discovering Lee in _Rose_, _Book of My Nights_ is easily his second best book, surpassing the imagery and emotional depth of _The City in Which I Love You_. Of course, you'd have to be crazy not to own all three!
If you've never read Lee and are considering picking up this book, by all means do so. This is heart/gut wrenching poetry at its original best. This is poetry which makes poets think, "I wish I wrote that".
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