Book

Lee, Li-Young, 1957- author.

Rose : poems / by Li-Young Lee ; foreword by Gerald Stern.

First edition.

Brockport, New York : BOA Editions, 1986.

©1986

71 pages ; 23 cm.

Li-Young Lee was born in 1957 in Jakarta, Indonesia, of Chinese parents. In 1959 his father, after spending a year as a political prisoner in President Sukarno's jails, fled Indonesia with his family. Between 1959 and 1964 the Lee family traveled throughout Hong Kong, Macau and Japan, until arriving in America.Li-Young Lee's first poetry collection, Rose, won the New York University's 1986 Delmore Schwartz Memorial Poetry Award. His second collection, The City In Which I Love You, was the 1990 Lamont Poetry Selection of the Academy of American Poets. His third collection, Book of My Nights, was awarded the 2002 William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America.

Poetry, Modern -- 20th century.

Poetry.

Stern, Gerald, 1925-2022 author of foreword.

BOA Editions, publisher.

Epistle -- The gift -- Persimmons -- The weight of sweetness -- From blossoms -- Dreaming of hair -- Early in the morning -- Water -- Falling : the code -- Nocturne -- My indigo -- Irises -- Eating alone -- Always a rose -- Eating together -- I ask my mother to sing -- Ash, snow, or moonlight -- The life -- The weepers -- Braiding -- Rain diary -- My sleeping loved ones -- Mnemonic -- Between seasons -- Visions and interpretations.

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