The Winged Seed (Magill’s Choice: American Ethnic Writers)
At a glance:
- Author: Li-Young Lee
- First Published: 1995
- Type of Work: Memoir
- Time of Work: Circa 1900-1990
- Setting: China, Indonesia, Hong Kong, and the United States
- Principal Characters: Li-Young Lee, Kuo Yuan “Perfect Country, Jiaying, Lammi
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography, Memoir
- Subjects: Family or family life, Parents and children, Poetry or poets, Dreams, Mental illness, Fathers, Preaching, Asian Americans, Chinese Americans, Fishing or fishermen
- Locales: United States, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia
For readers not previously acquainted with Li-Young Lee, it needs be said that he is a highly accomplished Chinese American poet whose initial volume, Rose (1986), won the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Poetry Award given by New York University and whose second volume, The City in Which I Love You (1990), received the Lamont Poetry Prize of the Academy of American poets. Readers familiar with Lee’s deeply moving and exquisitely crafted poems will recall his many haunting pieces that remember, evoke, and interrogate the almost mythic figure of the poet’s deceased father, Kuo...
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