Book of My Nights (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Li-Young Lee
- First Published: 2001
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Time of Work: The present
- Setting: The United States
- Principal Characters: The persona of the poet, The father, The mother, A brother, A sister, The wife of the persona, The son of the persona
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Family or family life, Memory, Parents and children, Fathers, Fruit, Night, Mirrors or lenses
- Locales: United States
Li-Young Lee was born in 1957 in Jakarta, Indonesia. His father had been a personal physician of Mao Zedong, the Communist dictator of the People’s Republic of China, but escaped to Indonesia with his family when Mao turned against him. When Lee was one year old, his father was imprisoned in Indonesia when that country turned against ethnic Chinese, such as the Lees. One year later, after his father’s release from prison, Lee’s family escaped and traveled through Asia, finally coming to the United States in 1964. Lee grew up in the Chicago area, where he also married his American...
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