Modern
and Contemporary American Poetry
Li-young
Lee (1957-)
In an interview published in
the San Diego Union-Tribune, April 11, 1996, Lee said, "I'm highly aware
that I'm a guest in the language. I'm wondering if that's not the truth
for all of us, that somehow we're all guests in language, that once we
start speaking any language somehow we bow to that language at the same
time we bend that language to us,"
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(It's from River
City Writers Series set up by Creative Writing Club in The University
of Memphis.)
Biographical information:
1. Biography
2. Biography
3. Another brief biography
4. Introduction to Lee's life
and some guiding questions about his poems
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Relevant links
1. Online site about Lee receiving
an honory doctorate
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E-texts of poems:
1. "The
Gift"
2. "Persimmons"
--Brief analysis of the poem
--Student response to the poem
--Another analysis of the poem
--Site with summary and commentary on the poem
--Real audio recording of Lee reading the poem
--Site that provides Chinese cultural context
for the poem
3. "Early
in the Morning"
4. "Eating
Alone"
5. "Eating
Together"
6. "I
ask my Mother to Sing"
--Guiding questions from our department's English
Literature Databank
7. "Visions
and Interpretations"
8. "This
Hour and What is Dead"
9. "For
a New Citizen of These United States"
10. "A
Story"
11. "The
Father's House"
--This poem
is based on a painting by Lee's brother
(Li Lin Lee) called "Corban Ephphatha I."
--Site with
a resume and reproduction of another
painting by Li Lin Lee
--Site with
more examples of Li Lin Lee's
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