CRITICISM

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.

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.”

Additional coverage of Lee's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: Asian American Literature; Contemporary Authors, Vol. 153; Contemporary Poets, Ed. 7; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 165; Literature Resource Center; Poetry Criticism, Vol. 24; Poetry for Students, Vol. 11.