Li-Young Lee (李立揚, pinyin: Lǐ Lìyáng) (born August 19, 1957) 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 1959 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 1964. Li-Young Lee attended the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Arizona, and the State University of New York Brockport.
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 poetryedit
Li-Young Lee has been an established Asian American poet who has been doing interviews for the past twenty years. Breaking the Alabaster Jar: Conversations with Li-Young Lee (BOA Editions, 2006, 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.
1990: The City In Which I Love You. Rochester: BOA Editions Limited, ISBN0-918526-83-3
2001: Book of My Nights. Rochester: BOA Editions Limited, ISBN1-929918-08-9
2008: Behind My Eyes. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., ISBN0-393-33481-3
2018: The Undressing. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., ISBN9780393065435
2024: The Invention of the Darling: Poems. W.W. Norton & Co., ISBN9780393867190
Memoiredit
The Wingéd Seed: A Remembrance. (hardcover) New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995. ASIN: B000NGRB2G (paperback) St. Paul: Ruminator, 1999. ISBN1-886913-28-5
Meaning Maker By: Butts, Lisa; Publishers Weekly, 2007 November 19; 254 (56): 38.
Li-Young Lee no hyoka o tooshite By: Kajiwara, Teruko; Eigo Seinen/Rising Generation, 2006 July; 152 (4): pages 212-13.
Transcendentalism, Ethnicity, and Food in the Work of Li-Young Lee By: Xu, Wenying; Boundary 2: An International Journal of Literature and Culture, 2006 Summer; 33 (2): pages 129-57.
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; 2006. pages 145–64
Li-Young Lee By: Davis, Rocío G.. IN: Madsen, Asian American Writers. Detroit, Michigan: Gale; 2005. pages 202–06
'Let the Word Speak through: Jordan C. Wise in Conversation with Li-Young Lee', New Walk, Autumn/Winter 2013; 7: pages 20–23.
'Your Otherness Is Perfect as My Death': The Ethics and Aesthetics of Li-Young Lee's Poetry By: Zhou, Xiaojing. IN: Fahraeus and Jonsson, Textual Ethos Studies or Locating Ethics. New York, New York: Rodopi; 2005. pages 297–314
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, 2004 Fall-Winter; 29 (3-4): pages 243-56.
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, 2004 Spring; 37 (1): pages 101-26.
Interview with Li-Young Lee By: Bilyak, Dianne; Massachusetts Review: A Quarterly of Literature, the Arts and Public Affairs, 2003-2004 Winter; 44 (4): pages 600-12.
Poetries of Transformation: Joy Harjo and Li-Young Lee By: Kolosov, Jacqueline; Studies in American Indian Literatures 2003 Summer; 15 (2): pages 39–57.
"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, 2002.
Forming Personal and Cultural Identities in the Face of Exodus: A Discussion of Li-Young Lee's Poetry By: Jenkins, Tricia; South Asian Review, 2003; 24 (2): pages 199-210.
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; 2002. pages 157–69
Night of No Exile By: Jones, Marie C.; Dissertation, University of North Texas, 1999.
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; 2002. pages 261–89
The Precision of Persimmons: Hybridity, Grafting and the Case of Li-Young Lee By: Yao, Steven G.; Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory, 2001 Apr; 12 (1): pages 1–23.
To Witness the Invisible: A Talk with Li-Young Lee By: Marshall, Tod; Kenyon Review, 2000 Winter; 22 (1): pages 129-47.
Beyond Lot's Wife: The Immigration Poems of Marilyn Chin, Garrett Hongo, Li-Young Lee, and David Mura By: Slowik, Mary; MELUS, 2000 Fall-Winter; 25 (3-4): pages 221-42.
Form and Identity in Language Poetry and Asian American Poetry By: Yu, Timothy; Contemporary Literature, 2000 Spring; 41 (3): pages 422-61.
An Interview with Li-Young Lee By: Fluharty, Matthew; Missouri Review, 2000; 23 (1): pages 81–99.
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; 2000. pages 270–80
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, 1998.
A Conversation with Li-Young Lee ; Indiana Review, 1999 Fall-Winter; 21 (2): 101-08.
The Cultural Predicaments of Ethnic Writers: Three Chicago Poets By: Bresnahan, Roger J. Jiang; Midwestern Miscellany, 1999 Fall; 27: pages 36–46.
The City in Which I Love You: Li-Young Lee's Excellent Song By: Hesford, Walter A.; Christianity and Literature, 1996 Autumn; 46 (1): pages 37–60.
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This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification Please help by adding reliable sources Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page especially if potentially libelous Find sources Li Young Lee news newspapers books scholar JSTOR July 2018 Learn how and when to remove this message In this Chinese name the family name is Lee Li Young Lee 李立揚 pinyin Lǐ Liyang born August 19 1957 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 1959 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 1964 Li Young Lee attended the University of Pittsburgh the University of Arizona and the State University of New York Brockport Li Young LeeLi Young LeeBorn 1957 08 19 August 19 1957 age 66 Jakarta IndonesiaOccupationPoetNationalityAmericanSubjectpoetryNotable worksThe City in Which I Love YouNotable awardsAmerican Book AwardWhiting AwardLannan Literary Award Contents 1 Development as a poet 2 Lee s influence on Asian American poetry 3 Awards and honors 4 Other recognition 5 Selected bibliography 5 1 Poetry 5 2 Memoir 6 See also 7 Critical studies 8 External links 9 ReferencesDevelopment as a poet editLee 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 editLi Young Lee has been an established Asian American poet who has been doing interviews for the past twenty years Breaking the Alabaster Jar Conversations with Li Young Lee BOA Editions 2006 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 editLee has won numerous poetry awards 1 1986 Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award from New York University for Rose 1988 Whiting Award 1990 Lamont Poetry Selection for The City in Which I Love You 1995 Lannan Literary Award 1995 American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation for The Winged Seed A Remembrance 2002 William Carlos Williams Award for Book of My Nights American Poets Continuum Judge Carolyn Kizer 2003 Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets which does not accept applications and which includes a 25 000 stipend 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 ArtsOther recognition edit2011 Lee s poem A Story was featured in the AP English Literature and Composition 2011 Free Response Questions 3 Selected bibliography editPoetry edit 1986 Rose Rochester BOA Editions Limited ISBN 0 918526 53 1 1990 The City In Which I Love You Rochester BOA Editions Limited ISBN 0 918526 83 3 2001 Book of My Nights Rochester BOA Editions Limited ISBN 1 929918 08 9 2008 Behind My Eyes New York W W Norton amp Co ISBN 0 393 33481 3 2018 The Undressing New York W W Norton amp Co ISBN 9780393065435 2024 The Invention of the Darling Poems W W Norton amp Co ISBN 9780393867190 Memoir edit The Winged Seed A Remembrance hardcover New York Simon amp Schuster 1995 ASIN B000NGRB2G paperback St Paul Ruminator 1999 ISBN 1 886913 28 5See also edit nbsp Poetry portal nbsp Literature portal List of Asian American writersCritical studies editas of March 2008 Meaning Maker By Butts Lisa Publishers Weekly 2007 November 19 254 56 38 Li Young Lee no hyoka o tooshite By Kajiwara Teruko Eigo Seinen Rising Generation 2006 July 152 4 pages 212 13 Transcendentalism Ethnicity and Food in the Work of Li Young Lee By Xu Wenying Boundary 2 An International Journal of Literature and Culture 2006 Summer 33 2 pages 129 57 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 2006 pages 145 64 Li Young Lee By Davis Rocio G IN Madsen Asian American Writers Detroit Michigan Gale 2005 pages 202 06 Let the Word Speak through Jordan C Wise in Conversation with Li Young Lee New Walk Autumn Winter 2013 7 pages 20 23 Your Otherness Is Perfect as My Death The Ethics and Aesthetics of Li Young Lee s Poetry By Zhou Xiaojing IN Fahraeus and Jonsson Textual Ethos Studies or Locating Ethics New York New York Rodopi 2005 pages 297 314 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 2004 Fall Winter 29 3 4 pages 243 56 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 2004 Spring 37 1 pages 101 26 Interview with Li Young Lee By Bilyak Dianne Massachusetts Review A Quarterly of Literature the Arts and Public Affairs 2003 2004 Winter 44 4 pages 600 12 Poetries of Transformation Joy Harjo and Li Young Lee By Kolosov Jacqueline Studies in American Indian Literatures 2003 Summer 15 2 pages 39 57 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 2002 Forming Personal and Cultural Identities in the Face of Exodus A Discussion of Li Young Lee s Poetry By Jenkins Tricia South Asian Review 2003 24 2 pages 199 210 Lee s Eating Alone By Moeser Daniel Explicator 2002 Winter 60 2 pages 117 19 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 2002 pages 157 69 Night of No Exile By Jones Marie C Dissertation University of North Texas 1999 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 2002 pages 261 89 The Precision of Persimmons Hybridity Grafting and the Case of Li Young Lee By Yao Steven G Lit Literature Interpretation Theory 2001 Apr 12 1 pages 1 23 To Witness the Invisible A Talk with Li Young Lee By Marshall Tod Kenyon Review 2000 Winter 22 1 pages 129 47 Beyond Lot s Wife The Immigration Poems of Marilyn Chin Garrett Hongo Li Young Lee and David Mura By Slowik Mary MELUS 2000 Fall Winter 25 3 4 pages 221 42 Form and Identity in Language Poetry and Asian American Poetry By Yu Timothy Contemporary Literature 2000 Spring 41 3 pages 422 61 An Interview with Li Young Lee By Fluharty Matthew Missouri Review 2000 23 1 pages 81 99 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 2000 pages 270 80 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 1998 A Conversation with Li Young Lee Indiana Review 1999 Fall Winter 21 2 101 08 The Cultural Predicaments of Ethnic Writers Three Chicago Poets By Bresnahan Roger J Jiang Midwestern Miscellany 1999 Fall 27 pages 36 46 The City in Which I Love You Li Young Lee s Excellent Song By Hesford Walter A Christianity and Literature 1996 Autumn 46 1 pages 37 60 Lee s Persimmons By Engles Tim Explicator 1996 Spring 54 3 pages 191 92 Inheritance and Invention in Li Young Lee s Poetry By Zhou Xiaojing MELUS 1996 Spring 21 1 pages 113 32 Li Young Lee By Hsu Ruth Y IN Conte American Poets since World War II Fourth Series Detroit Thomson Gale 1996 pages 139 46 Li Young Lee By Lee James BOMB 1995 Spring 51 pages 10 13 External links editPoems by Li Young Lee and biography at PoetryFoundation org Profile at The Whiting Foundation Scene Missing Magazine Interviews Li Young Lee Audio of Lannan Foundation Reading with Li Young Lee and conversation between Li Young Lee and Michael Silverblatt State of Illinois Site featuring Li Young Lee Li Young Lee s Reading at BYU entitled Infinite Inwardness Three Poems by Li Young Lee NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Li Young Lee Feature Audio Li Young Lee reads To Hold from the book Behind My Eyes via poemsoutloud net Audio Immigrant Blues from Behind My Eyes read by Li Young LeeReferences edit a b Blue Flower Arts a b Poetry Archive http apcentral collegeboard com apc public repository ap11 frq english lit pdf bare URL PDF Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Li Young Lee amp oldid 1220812508, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
