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Li-Young Lee

American poet (born )

In this Chinese name, the family name is Lee.

Li-Young Lee

Li-Young Lee

Born () August 19, (age&#;67)
Jakarta, Indonesia
OccupationPoet
NationalityAmerican
Subjectpoetry
Notable worksThe City in Which I Love You
Notable awardsAmerican Book Award
Whiting Award
Lannan Literary Award
Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize

Li-Young Lee (李立揚, pinyin: Lǐ Lìyáng) (born August 19, ) is an American poet.

He was born in Jakarta, Indonesia, to Chinese parents.[1] His maternal great-grandfather was Yuan Shikai, China's first Republican President,[2] who attempted to make himself emperor. Lee's father, who was a personal physician to Mao Zedong while in China, relocated his family to Indonesia, where he helped found Gamaliel University.

In the Lee family fled Indonesia to escape widespread anti-Chinese sentiment and after a five-year trek through Hong Kong and Japan, they settled in the United States in Li-Young Lee attended the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Arizona, and the State University of New York Brockport.

Adore This is apparent in his reading style which makes the most of these pauses. After attending the University of Pittsburgh , the University of Arizona, and the State University of New York at Brockport, the son began to publish poems that drew heavily on the exotic, adventurous refugee experiences that he had both observed and heard recounted by family members in the United States. It was during his time at the University of Arizona that Lee began to develop his unique voice as a poet. BOA Editions.

Development as a poet

Lee attended the University of Pittsburgh, where he began to develop his love for writing poems. He had seen his father find his passion for ministry and as a result of his father reading to him and encouraging Lee to find his passion, Lee began to dive into the art of language. Lee's writing has also been influenced by classic Chinese poets, such as Li Bai and Du Fu.[2] Many of Lee's poems are filled with themes of simplicity, strength, and silence.

All are strongly influenced by his family history, childhood, and individuality. He writes with simplicity and passion which creates images that take the reader deeper and also requires his audience to fill in the gaps with their own imagination. These feelings of exile and boldness to rebel take shape as they provide common themes for poems.

Lee's influence on Asian American poetry

Li-Young Lee has been an established Asian American poet who has been doing interviews for the past twenty years.

Nothing But Paradise (audio only) In addition to these personal influences, Lee has also been inspired by a wide range of literary and artistic traditions. Throughout his works, Lee addresses themes such as identity, race, immigration, and the human condition. Composing in a meandering free verse line, Lee appears to be forever in a hurry to pull together the endless threads of his observations and experience. Throughout his career, Li-Young Lee has collaborated with other artists and writers, and his works have been translated into numerous languages.

Breaking the Alabaster Jar: Conversations with Li-Young Lee (BOA Editions, , ed. Earl G. Ingersoll), is the first edited and published collection of interviews with an Asian American poet. In this book, Earl G. Ingersoll has collected interviews with the poet consisting of "conversational" questions meant to bring out Lee's views on Asian American poetry, writing, and identity.

Awards and honors

Lee has won numerous poetry awards:[1]

  • Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award, from New York University, for Rose
  • Whiting Award
  • Lamont Poetry Selection for The City in Which I Love You
  • Lannan Literary Award
  • American Book Award, from the Before Columbus Foundation, for The Wingéd Seed: A Remembrance
  • William Carlos Williams Award for Book of My Nights (American Poets Continuum) Judge: Carolyn Kizer
  • Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets, which does not accept applications and which includes a $25, stipend
  • Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, for outstanding lifetime achievement, Poetry Foundation[3]
  • Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts
  • Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • Grant, Illinois Arts Council
  • Grant, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
  • Grant, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts

Other recognition

Selected bibliography

Poetry

Memoir

See also

Critical studies

as of March

  1. Meaning Maker By: Butts, Lisa; Publishers Weekly, November 19; (56):
  2. Li-Young Lee no hyoka o tooshite By: Kajiwara, Teruko; Eigo Seinen/Rising Generation, July; (4): pages
  3. Transcendentalism, Ethnicity, and Food in the Work of Li-Young Lee By: Xu, Wenying; Boundary 2: An International Journal of Literature and Culture, Summer; 33 (2): pages
  4. An Exile's Will to Canon and Its Tension with Ethnicity: Li-Young Lee By: Xu, Wenying.

    IN: Bona and Maini, Multiethnic Literature and Canon Debates. Albany, New York: State University of New York P; pages –64

  5. Li-Young Lee By: Davis, Rocío G.. IN: Madsen, Asian American Writers. Detroit, Michigan: Gale; pages –06
  6. 'Let the Word Speak through: Jordan C. Wise in Conversation with Li-Young Lee', New Walk, Autumn/Winter ; 7: pages 20–
  7. 'Your Otherness Is Perfect as My Death': The Ethics and Aesthetics of Li-Young Lee's Poetry By: Zhou, Xiaojing.

    Lee young li biography In addition to his poetry, Li-Young Lee has also written several essays and prose pieces. Lee has also collaborated with other poets, such as the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa, on various projects. Lee, Kuan Yew It is not so much how Lee writes, or even what he writes about, but what lurks inside his effort that most moves us.

    IN: Fahraeus and Jonsson, Textual Ethos Studies or Locating Ethics. New York, New York: Rodopi; pages –

  8. Sexual Desire and Cultural Memory in Three Ethnic Poets By: Basford, Douglas; MELUS: The Journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, Fall-Winter; 29 (): pages
  9. The Politics of Ethnic Authorship: Li-Young Lee, Emerson, and Whitman at the Banquet Table By: Partridge, Jeffrey F.

    L.; Studies in the Literary Imagination, Spring; 37 (1): pages

  10. Interview with Li-Young Lee By: Bilyak, Dianne; Massachusetts Review: A Quarterly of Literature, the Arts and Public Affairs, Winter; 44 (4): pages
  11. Poetries of Transformation: Joy Harjo and Li-Young Lee By: Kolosov, Jacqueline; Studies in American Indian Literatures Summer; 15 (2): pages 39–
  12. "Father-Stem and Mother-Root": Genealogy, Memory, and the Poetics of Origins in Theodore Roethke, Elizabeth Bishop, and Li-Young Lee By: Malandra, Marc Joseph; Dissertation, Cornell University,
  13. Forming Personal and Cultural Identities in the Face of Exodus: A Discussion of Li-Young Lee's Poetry By: Jenkins, Tricia; South Asian Review, ; 24 (2): pages
  14. Lee's 'Eating Alone' By: Moeser, Daniel; Explicator, Winter; 60 (2): pages
  15. The Way a Calendar Dissolves: A Refugee's Sense of Time in the Work of Li-Young Lee By: Lorenz, Johnny.

    IN: Davis and Ludwig, Asian American Literature in the International Context: Readings on Fiction, Poetry, and Performance. Hamburg, Germany: Lit; pages –69

  16. Night of No Exile By: Jones, Marie C.; Dissertation, University of North Texas,
  17. Art, Spirituality, and the Ethic of Care: Alternative Masculinities in Chinese American Literature By: Cheung, King-Kok.

    IN: Gardiner, Masculinity Studies and Feminist Theory: New Directions. New York, NY: Columbia UP; pages –89

  18. The Precision of Persimmons: Hybridity, Grafting and the Case of Li-Young Lee By: Yao, Steven G.; Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory, Apr; 12 (1): pages 1–
  19. To Witness the Invisible: A Talk with Li-Young Lee By: Marshall, Tod; Kenyon Review, Winter; 22 (1): pages
  20. Beyond Lot's Wife: The Immigration Poems of Marilyn Chin, Garrett Hongo, Li-Young Lee, and David Mura By: Slowik, Mary; MELUS, Fall-Winter; 25 (): pages
  21. Form and Identity in Language Poetry and Asian American Poetry By: Yu, Timothy; Contemporary Literature, Spring; 41 (3): pages
  22. An Interview with Li-Young Lee By: Fluharty, Matthew; Missouri Review, ; 23 (1): pages 81–
  23. Li-Young Lee By: Lee, James Kyung-Jin.

    IN: Cheung, Words Matter: Conversations with Asian American Writers. Honolulu: U of Hawaii P, with UCLA Asian American Studies Center; pages –80

  24. Necessary Figures: Metaphor, Irony and Parody in the Poetry of Li-Young Lee, Marilyn Chin, and John Yau By: Wang, Dorothy Joan; Dissertation, University of California, Berkeley,
  25. A Conversation with Li-Young Lee&#;; Indiana Review, Fall-Winter; 21 (2):
  26. The Cultural Predicaments of Ethnic Writers: Three Chicago Poets By: Bresnahan, Roger J.

    Jiang; Midwestern Miscellany, Fall; pages 36–

  27. The City in Which I Love You: Li-Young Lee's Excellent Song By: Hesford, Walter A.; Christianity and Literature, Autumn; 46 (1): pages 37–
  28. Lee's 'Persimmons' By: Engles, Tim; Explicator, Spring; 54 (3): pages
  29. Inheritance and Invention in Li-Young Lee's Poetry By: Zhou, Xiaojing; MELUS, Spring; 21 (1): pages
  30. Li-Young Lee By: Hsu, Ruth Y.

    IN: Conte, American Poets since World War II: Fourth Series. Detroit: Thomson Gale; pages –46

  31. Li-Young Lee By: Lee, James; BOMB, Spring; pages 10–

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