The Winged Seed: A Remembrance

Name: The Winged Seed: A Remembrance
Brand: BOA Editions Limited
SKU: 9781938160042
Price: 15.29 EUR
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★★★★★

English

By (author): Li-Young Lee

It has true spiritual importance for contemporary American literature.--Edward Hirsch Upon its initial publication, acclaimed poet Li-Young Lee's memoir The Winged Seed: A Remembrance (1995), received an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. In lyrical prose, Lee's extraordinary story begins in the 1950s when his parents fled China's political turmoil for Indonesia. Along with many other Chinese members of the population, his family was persecuted under President Sukarno. Falsely accused and charged for crimes against the state, his father spent a year and a half in jail as a political prisoner, half of that time in a leper colony. While his entire family was being transported to a prison colony, they escaped and fled to Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, and back to Hong Kong where his father rose to prominence as an evangelical preacher. Eventually, the family sought asylum in the United States in 1962. When the author was six, they emigrated to a small town in western Pennsylvania where his father became a Presbyterian minister. This reissued edition contains a new foreword by the author and never-before-seen photos of the family from different stages of their journey. Li-Young Lee is the author of four critically acclaimed books of poetry that have garnered such awards as the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award from New York University; the 1990 Lamont Poetry Selection; the Writer's Award from the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation; and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Lannan Foundation, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. See more

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Weight: 226g
Dimensions: 133 x 203mm
Publication Date: 18 Apr 2013
Publisher: BOA Editions Limited
Publication City/Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781938160042

About Li-Young Lee

Li-Young Lee is the author of four critically acclaimed books of poetry his most recent being Behind My Eyes (W.W. Norton 2008). His earlier collections are Book of My Nights (BOA Editions 2001); Rose (BOA 1986) winner of the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award from New York University; The City in Which I Love You (BOA 1991) the 1990 Lamont Poetry Selection; and a memoir entitled The Winged Seed: A Remembrance (Simon and Schuster 1995) which received an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. Lee's honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts The Lannan Foundation and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation as well as grants from the Illinois Arts Council the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. In 1988 he received the Writer's Award from the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation. He is also featured in Katja Esson's documentary Poetry of Resilience. Born in 1957 of Chinese parents in Jakarta Indonesia Lee learned early about loss and exile. His great grandfather was China's first republican President; and his father a deeply religious Christian was physician to Communist leader Mao Tse-Tung. After the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949 Lee's parents escaped to Indonesia. In 1959 his father after spending a year as a political prisoner in President Sukarno's jails fled Indonesia with his family to escape anti-Chinese sentiment. After a five-year trek through Hong Kong Macau and Japan they settled in the United States in 1964. Through the observation and translation of often unassuming and silent moments the poetry of Li-Young Lee gives clear voice to the solemn and extraordinary beauty found within humanity. By employing hauntingly lyrical skill and astute poetic awareness Lee allows silence sound form and spirit to emerge brilliantly onto the page. His poetry reveals a dialogue between the eternal and the temporal and accentuates the joys and sorrows of family home loss exile and love. In The City In Which I love You the central long poem in his second collection Li-Young Lee asks Is prayer then the proper attitude / for the mind that longs to be freely blown / but which gets snagged on the barb / called world that / tooth-ache the actual? Anyone who has seen him read will add that Lee is also one of the finest poetry readers alive. He lives in Chicago with his wife Donna and their two sons.