Further Reading
- Baker, David, "Culture, Inclusion, Craft," Poetry CLVIII, No. 3 (June 1991): 158-75. (Includes commentary on The City in Which I Love You. Baker states: "I have to admit that I admire the desires this book expresses more often than I am able to admire the writing.")
- Boruch, Marianne, “Comment/Memory Theater,” American Poetry Review, 16, no. 2 (March-April 1987): 22-23. (Boruch provides a favorable assessment of Rose.)
- Flamm, Matthew, “Facing up to the Deadly Ordinary,” New York Times Book Review (4 October 1987): 24. (Flamm lauds the sincerity and modesty of Lee's poetry in Rose.)
- Greenbaum, Jessica, “Memory's Citizen,” Nation 253, no. 11 (7 October 1991): 416-18. (Greenbaum surveys Lee's poetic development in Rose and The City in Which I Love You.)
- McDowell, Robert, "Li-Young Lee," in Contemporary Poets, Sixth Edition, ed. Thomas Riggs. Detroit: St. James Press, 1996. (Biographical and critical survey of the poet.)
- McGovern, Martin, “Recent Poetry from Independent Presses,” Kenyon Review 9, no. 4 (Fall 1987): 131-37. (McGovern commends Lee for avoiding predictability and triteness in Rose, maintaining that “by flirting with sentimentality he transcends it.”)
- Miller, Matt, "Darkness Visible," Far Eastern Economic Review 159, No. 22 (May 30, 1996): 34-6. (Biographical portrait that stresses the influence of Lee's family history on his poetry.)
- Moyers, Bill, "Li-Young Lee," in The Language of Life: A Festival of Poets, 256-69. New York: Doubleday, 1995. (Interview in which Lee discusses his family history and the impact of religion on his poetry.)
- Neff, David, "Remembering the Man Who Forgot Nothing," Christianity Today 32, No. 12 (September 2, 1988): 63. (Emphasizes Lee's interest in the Bible and detects Scriptural influences in his poetry.)
- Stern, Gerald, "Foreword," in Rose, by Li-Young Lee, pp. 8-10. Brockport, Ν. Υ.: Boa Editions, 1986. (Asserts that what characterizes Lee's poetry is "a certain humility, a kind of cunning, a love of plain speech, a search for wisdom and understanding.")
- Waniek, Marilyn Nelson, Review of The City in Which I Love You, The Kenyon Review n.s. XIII, No. 4 (Fall 1991): 223-25. (Maintains that Lee's second collection "is more than interesting. One or two of its poems are, in my opinion, necessary. Elegant, delicate, and reticent, they achieve in graceful form the fulfillment of Lee's remarkable childhood history.")
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