Book Of My Nights : Poems By Li-Young Lee

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lee, Li-Young

Series:

American poets continuum series ; v. 68.

American poets continuum series ; number 68

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--Asian American authors.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Rochester : BOA Editions, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Book of My Nights is the first poetry collection in ten years by one of the world's most acclaimed young poets. In Book of My Nights, Li-Young Lee once again gives us lyrical poetry that fuses memory, family, culture and history. In language as simple and powerful as the human muscle, these poems work individually and as a full-sequence meditation on the vulnerability of humanity. Marketing Plans: o National advertising o National media campaign o National and regional author appearances o Advance reader copies o Course adoption mailing Li-Young Lee burst onto the American literary scene with

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Pillow""; ""A Table in the Wilderness""; ""From Another Room""; ""Nativity""; ""Hurry toward Beginning""; ""Little Round""; ""Black Petal""; ""The Well""; ""Night Mirror""; ""Heir to All""; ""Discrepancies, Happy and Sad""; ""My Father�s House""; ""The Moon from Any Window""; ""Degrees of Blue""; ""The Sleepless""; ""Our River Now""; ""The Bridge""; ""Words for Worry""; ""Little Father""; ""Lullaby""; ""One Heart""; ""Praise Them""; ""Build by Flying""; ""In the Beginning""; ""The Other Hours""; ""The Hammock""; ""The Eternal Son""; ""A Dove! I Said""; ""Fill and Fall""

""Dwelling""""Echo and Shadow""; ""Restless""; ""Stations of the Sea""; ""Buried Heart""; ""Out of Hiding""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""About the Author""; ""BOA Editions, LTD.:American Poets Continuum Series""; ""colophon""

Notes:

Preliminaries omitted.

ISBN:

1-938160-40-1

OCLC:

881887141