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Li-Young Lee Criticism

Li-Young Lee stands as a significant voice in contemporary American poetry, renowned for his distinctive blend of multicultural themes and lyrical style. Born in Jakarta in 1957, Lee's early life was profoundly shaped by his family's flight from anti-Chinese sentiment, eventually leading them to the United States. This journey, steeped in displacement and cultural transition, permeates his work with themes of identity, heritage, and familial relationships. Lee's debut collection, Rose (1986), which received the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Poetry Award, sets the stage for his exploration of these motifs, especially his complex relationship with his father, who appears in his poetry with haunting duality, as noted in So Close to the Bone and Review of Rose.

Contents

  • Principal Works
  • Lee, Li-Young (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
    • So Close to the Bone
    • Review of Rose
    • Speaking Passions
    • The Documentary of What Is
    • Sons, Lovers, Immigrant Souls
    • A Fool's Paradise
    • Culture, Inclusion, Craft
    • Review of The City in Which I Love You
    • A Multitude of Dreams
    • A Pair of Poets Remember in Prose
    • Lee's ‘Persimmons’
    • Beyond Lot's Wife: The Immigration Poems of Marilyn Chin, Garrett Hongo, Li-Young Lee, and David Mura
    • Book of My Nights
  • Lee, Li-Young (Poetry Criticism)
    • A review of Rose
    • Auditory Imaginations: The Sense of Sound
    • Memory's Citizen
    • Inheritance and Invention in Li-Young Lee's Poetry
  • Further Reading