By Li-Young Lee,Earl G. Ingersoll
ISBN-10: 1929918828
ISBN-13: 9781929918829
In the foreword to Li-Young Lee’s first booklet, Rose (BOA variants, 1986), Gerald Stern wrote, “What characterizes Li-Young Lee’s poetry is a undeniable type of humility, one of those crafty, a love of simple speech, a look for knowledge and figuring out. . . . i feel we're within the presence of a real spirit.” Poetry fanatics agree! Rose has long past directly to promote greater than 80 thousand copies, and Li-Young Lee has develop into one of many country’s so much liked poets.
Breaking the Alabaster Jar: Conversations with Li-Young Lee is a set of the simplest dozen interviews given via Li-Young Lee during the last 20 years. From a twenty-nine-year-old poet prodigy to a pro veteran in excessive call for for readings and appearances around the usa and in another country, those interviews seize Li-Young Lee at a number of levels of his inventive improvement. He not just discusses his family’s flight from political oppression in China and Indonesia, yet how that trip affected his poetry and the enticing, usually painful, insights being raised a cultural outsider in the USA afforded him. different themes comprise spirituality (primarily Christianity and Buddhism) and quite a lot of aesthetic subject matters similar to literary impacts, his personal writing practices, the position of formal and casual schooling in changing into a author, and his present lifestyles as a recognized and hugely sought-after American poet.
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