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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 name for The Beloved, every poem another way to say "I love you." Forged in awe of life and love, these poems emerge from the unlit depths of our earthly, material desires and our deepest fears of mortality.

Book Details

Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN:
9780393867190
Binding:
Hardcover
Pages:
144
Authors:
Li-Young Lee
Published Date:
2024-05-14
Language:
English

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About Li-Young Lee

Born in 1957 in Jakarta, Indonesia, to Chinese parents, Li-Young Lee fled the country with his family in 1959 amid anti-Chinese hostility, settling in the United States in 1964 after years in Hong Kong, Macau, and Japan. He studied at the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Arizona, and the State University of New York at Brockport. His debut collection, Rose (BOA Editions, 1986), won the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award, and The City in Which I Love You (BOA Editions, 1990) was the Lamont Poetry Selection of the Academy of American Poets. His memoir The Winged Seed (Simon & Schuster, 1995) received an American Book Award. He has held a Guggenheim Fellowship and an NEA grant.

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