Product Description

Contents

I.
Furious Versionis

II.
The Interrogation
This Hour And What Is Dead
Arise, Go Down
My Father, In Heaven, Is Reading Out Loud
For A New Citizen Of These United States
With Ruins

III.
This Room And Everything In It
The City In Which I Love You

IV.

The Waiting
A Story
Goodnight
You Must Sing
Here I Am
A Final Thing

V.
The Cleaving

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #203452 in Books
• Published on: 1990-06-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 89 pages

From Library Journal
These "evocative, mysterious [poems] emphasize the immigrant sensibility." Lee may soon be one of our best poets.
- emphasize the immigrant sensibility." Lee may soon be one of our best poets.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review
Arise, Go Down
The City In Which I Love You
The Cleaving
A Final Thing
For A New Citizen Of These United States
Furious Versions: 1
Furious Versions: 2
Furious Versions: 3
Furious Versions: 4
Furious Versions: 5
Furious Versions: 6
Furious Versions: 7
Goodnight
Here I Am
The Interrogation
My Father, In Heaven, Is Reading Out Loud
A Story
This Hour And What Is Dead
This Room And Everything In It
The Waiting
With Ruins
You Must Sing
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

About the Author
Li-Young Lee was born in 1957 in Jakarta, Indonesia, of Chinese parents. His most recent book of poetry, Book of My Nights (BOA Editions, 2001), is his third. His first collection, Rose, is in its 29th printing having sold over 80000 copies. Rose is one of the best selling poetry titles in U.S. history.

Customer Reviews

Wonderful book
I thought this book was excellent and really brought out the history of the poet's life. You have to know a little bit about the poet in order to fully appreciate the meaning behind these poems. These poems seem very chronological and carries the reader through a cycle of life which the poet has experienced while growing up. These poems are based mostly on the poet's family (first his parents and then his own family). Lee shows how he has become a father and a husband by learning from his own father. In the beginning the reader feels the poet's suffering as his family continuously tries to escape. The poet then takes the reader to America. The poems about his wife and first child are very romantic. It is obvious that he is madly in love with them and is actually awed by them. I felt that the poet was expressing his awe in many things: his awe in the strength of his parents, his awe in the beauty of his wife, his awe in the innocence of his children, his awe in change, and his awe in everything that he has become and all that he has experienced. Lee's stories are very unique and center around the events of his life. I felt that the overall tone of this book was desperate and I think it can be seen that the poet is perhaps struggling to come to terms with himself and all that he has been through. A deep and complicated history is unleashed through these poems.

lee's second book is good
Lee's second collection of poems is different from his other collections. the poems are longer and centered around his personal history more than the other two. This collection isn't as strong as his first _Rose_ or latest _Book of My Nights_ but still is a strong collection.

.·: *¨¨*:·. gorgeous word-scape .·: *¨¨*:·.
ok. where do i start?

i love it. i mean, i think i may have liked Rose better, and Winged Seed was good (rather densely packed in history) but there's something about an author's first book that makes you stop in the middle of reading, look up, and suddenly feel overwhelmingly in awe.

the way i feel about the book has to do with my being asian american i suppose. works by asian americans aren't as abundant as other people's, so i guess i devour books of this type because of their rarity and in this case, quality as well.

i guess i'm not feeling too eloquent right now but what i'm trying to say is that Lee conveys his messages of joy and sorrow (corny, i know) in a beautiful and personal manner and he deserves to be recognized as a prominent author of not only his labeled "asian american" genre but of ALL literature (which he's pretty much accomplished by now)