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Cargando... Book of My Nights: Poems (American Poets Continuum, 68) (2001)por Li-Young Lee
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. 2010 (my review can be found on the LibraryThing post linked) http://www.librarything.com/topic/90167#2110578 Behind My Eyes is the new collection of poems by Li-Young Lee. If one has read any of his previous work they are expecting spare, beautiful, lyric poetry, and that reader will not be disappointed. I recently discovered Lee while browsing the poetry section of a local book store. I picked up his Book Of My Nights and read a few poems and decided the book was worth buying. One of the nice things about poetry is that you are able to get the general feel of a book from a few poems and decide whether or not to take a chance. It was well worth they money spent, especially as there are poems I have already read several times. On a recent drive through Southern Vermont we stopped at Bartleby's Books in Wilmington and I discovered a copy of his latest collection, Behind My Eyes, which I bought without hesitation. I have yet to read his earlier works, though they are on my to do list. ...His Body throws two shadows: One onto the table and the piece of paper before him, and one onto his mind. One makes it difficult for him to see the words he's written and crossed out on the paper. The other keeps him from recognizing another master than Death. He squints. He reads: Does the first light hide inside the first dark? He reads: While all bodies share the same fate, all voices do not. from: In His Own Shadow The voice here echoes his earlier work in Book Of My Nights, but his voice is more diverse in this new collection, with greater breadth, and, as the quote above might indicate, greater awareness of his own importance as a voice in contemporary poetry. Lee's voice is soft spoken and spiritual, beautiful and profound, spare and deep, intensely personal and intensely universal. These are poems of pain, of love, of loss, of dialogue, of experience, of family; and behind it all a sense of profound wisdom, like an orchid where each blossom is unique yet each a part of the whole plant, opening successively upon a quivering branch. To see what Lilia Pilia says about Li-Young Lee click here, and what Ivan Granger has to say here. Here is an article on Behind My Eyes from when it first came out last year. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Book of My Nights is the first poetry collection in ten years by one of the world's most acclaimed young poets. InBook of My Nights, Li-Young Lee once again gives us lyrical poetry that fuses memory, family, culture and history. In language as simple and powerful as the human muscle, these poems work individually and as a full-sequence meditation on the vulnerability of humanity. Marketing Plans: o National advertising o National media campaign o National and regional author appearances o Advance reader copies o Course adoption mailing Li-Young Lee burst onto the American literary scene with the publication ofRose, winner of the 1986 Delmore Schwartz Memorial Poetry Award from The Poetry Society of America. He followed that astonishing book withThe City in Which I Love You, which was The Lamont Poetry Selection of The Academy of American Poets. Mr. Lee has appeared on National Public Radio a number of times andThe Power of the Word, the PBS television series with Bill Moyers.Rose andThe City in Which I Love You are in the 19th and 17th printings respectively, making them two of the highest-selling contemporary poetry books in the United States. Moreover, Mr. Lee's poems have been translated into more than a dozen languages. He currently lives in Chicago. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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