By Li-Young Lee
Book of My Nights is the 1st poetry assortment in ten years by way of one of many world's so much acclaimed younger poets. In Book of My Nights, Li-Young Lee once more offers us lyrical poetry that fuses reminiscence, relations, tradition and heritage. In language as easy and strong because the human muscle, those poems paintings separately and as a full-sequence meditation at the vulnerability of humanity.
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Li-Young Lee burst onto the yank literary scene with the booklet of Rose, winner of the 1986 Delmore Schwartz Memorial Poetry Award from The Poetry Society of the United States. He that amazing e-book with The urban within which i admire You, which used to be The Lamont Poetry choice of The Academy of yankee Poets. Mr. Lee has seemed on nationwide Public Radio a few instances and The strength of the Word, the PBS tv sequence with invoice Moyers. Rose and The urban during which i admire You are within the nineteenth and seventeenth printings respectively, making them of the highest-selling modern poetry books within the usa. additionally, Mr. Lee's poems were translated into greater than a dozen languages. He presently lives in Chicago.
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See web page sixty six for certain person acknowledgments. for info approximately permission to reuse any fabric from this publication please touch The Permissions corporation at www. permissionscompany. com or e mail permdude@eclipse. internet. hide layout: Daphne Poulin-Stofer. artwork: Ambiguity’s baby, Stephen wood worker, courtesy of the artist. inside layout and composition: Valerie Brewster, Scribe Typography production: McNaughton & Gunn, Lithographers BOA emblem: Mirko library of congress cataloging-in-publication info Lee, Li-Young, 1957– e-book of my nights: poems / by means of Li-Young Lee. p. cm. — (American poets continuum sequence; no sixty eight) isbn 1-929918-07-0 (alk. paper) — isbn 1-929918-08-9 (pbk: alk. paper) i. Asian americans — Poetry. i. identify. ii. American poets continuum sequence; vol. sixty eight. ps3562. e35438 b66 2001 811'. fifty four — dc21 2001037760 BOA variants, Ltd. 250 North Goodman road, Suite 306 Rochester, big apple 14607 www. boaeditions. org A. Poulin, Jr. , Founder (1938-1996) For Donna your voice the lasting echo of my heart’s calling me domestic Contents ebook of My Nights 1 Pillow three A desk within the wasteland 6 From one other Room nine Nativity eleven Hurry towards starting thirteen Little around 15 Black Petal 18 The good 19 evening reflect 21 inheritor to All 22 Discrepancies, satisfied and unhappy 23 My Father’s apartment 28 The Moon from Any Window 30 levels of Blue 32 The Sleepless 33 Our River Now vii 35 The Bridge 36 phrases for fear 38 Little Father 39 Lullaby forty-one One center forty two compliment Them forty three construct by way of Flying forty four at the beginning forty six the opposite Hours forty eight The Hammock forty nine The everlasting Son fifty two A Dove! I acknowledged fifty four Fill and Fall fifty five living fifty six Echo and Shadow fifty eight stressed sixty one Stations of the ocean viii 63 Buried center sixty five Out of Hiding sixty six Acknowledgments sixty seven concerning the writer ix Pillow There’s not anything I can’t find lower than there. Voices within the timber, the lacking pages of the ocean. every thing yet sleep. And evening is a river bridging the conversing and the listening banks, a citadel, undefended and inviolate. There’s not anything that won’t fit below it: fountains clogged with dust and leaves, the homes of my youth. And evening starts while my mother’s fingers permit cross of the thread they’ve been tying and untying to the touch towards our fraying story’s hem. evening is the shadow of my father’s arms atmosphere the clock for resurrection. Or is it the clock unraveled, the numbers flown? There’s not anything that hasn’t came across domestic there: discarded wings, misplaced footwear, a damaged alphabet. 1 Everything yet sleep. And evening starts with the first beheading of the jasmine, its captive perfume rid ultimately of burial outfits. 2 A desk within the barren region I draw a window and a guy sitting within it. I draw a poultry in flight above the lintel. That’s my photo of considering. If I placed a girl there rather than the fellow, it’s an image of conversing. If I draw a moment chook within the woman’s lap, it’s ministering. a 3rd flying lower than her ft. Now it’s making a song. Or erase the birds, make ivy branching round the woman’s ankles, clinging to her knees, and it turns into remembering. You’ll need to find your individual photos, whoever you're, no matter what your want.