From Blossoms

Li-Young Lee (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

128 Seiten

2007 | International
Bloodaxe Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-85224-698-3 (ISBN)

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Li-Young Lee is a leading American poet, born in Indonesia, whose poetry fuses memory, family, culture and history to explore love, exile, family and mortality. This work, drawn from three collections and a memoir, shows Lee searching for understanding and for the right language to give form to what is invisible and evanescent.

Li-Young Lee is a leading American poet, born in Indonesia, whose poetry fuses memory, family, culture and history to explore love, exile, family and mortality. This selection, drawn from three collections and a memoir, shows Lee searching for understanding and for the right language to give form to what is invisible and evanescent.

Li-Young Lee was born in 1957 in Jakarta, Indonesia, of Chinese parents. His great-grandfather, Yuan Shikai, was China’s ﬁrst republican president (1912-16). His father, Lee Kuo Yuan, a deeply religious Christian physician, was personal secretary to Communist leader Mao Tse-tung. After they fell out, Lee’s father escaped to Indonesia, where he helped found Gamaliel University, but was later imprisoned for 19 months in Sukarno’s jails and in a leper colony, before he managed to escape and take his family out of the country. After a ﬁve-year trek through Hong Kong, Macau and Japan, they settled in the United States in 1964, where Lee’s father became a Presbyterian minister. Assisting his father on preaching trips in Pennsylvania was another of Li-Young Lee’s formative experiences. Li-Young Lee has published five collections in the States, including Rose (1986), winner of the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award, The City in Which I Love You (1991), the 1990 Lamont Poetry Selection, and Book of My Nights (2001), as well as a memoir, The Winged Seed: A Remembrance (1995), which received an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. His first British publication, From Blossoms: Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2007), draws on all four of these books. He has since published two other collections in the US, Behind My Eyes (2008) and The Undressing (2018). He lives in Chicago, Illinois.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	25.1.2007
Reihe/Serie	Bloodaxe World Poets S.
Verlagsort	Tyne and Wear
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Zweisprachige Ausgaben ► Deutsch / Englisch
ISBN-10	1-85224-698-7 / 1852246987
ISBN-13	978-1-85224-698-3 / 9781852246983
Zustand	Neuware