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Biography

Name: Li-Young Lee
Birth Date: August 19, 1957
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: Asian American, Chinese
Gender: Male

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Biography of Li-Young Lee
5,317 words, approx. 18 pages
Gerald Stern, in his foreword to Rose, describes Li-Young Lee's poetry as having "the large vision, the deep seriousness and the almost heroic ideal, reminiscent more of John Keats, Rainer Maria Rilke and perhaps Theodore Roethke than William Carlos...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Li-Young Lee Information
874 words, approx. 3 pages
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...


News and Journals
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MELUS
Inheritance and invention in Li-Young Lee's poetry.
03/22/1996: 7,232 words, approx. 24 pages
The interpretation of Li-Young Lee's poetry should not be limited to the influence of his Chinese heritage. Lee's poetry is informed by cross-cultural influences and the ability of the poet to reinvent himself as his life and consciousness change. His collected poems in 'Rose'...
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Studies in the Literary Imagination
The politics of ethnic authorship: Li-Young Lee, Emerson, and Whitman at the banquet table.(Critical Essay)
03/22/2004: 9,316 words, approx. 31 pages
What is it in me would devour this world to utter it? ... I would eat it all to utter it ... I would devour this race to sing it ... I would eat Emerson, his transparent soul, his soporific transcendence. ...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Mary Slowik
8,342 words, approx. 28 pages
In the following essay, Slowik compares and contrasts Lee's treatment of immigrant themes to those of Asian-American poets Garrett Hongo, Marilyn Chin, and David Mura, demonstrating the ways each “broadens and complicates the first person, meditative poetry of self-examination that dominates American writing today.”
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Critical Essay by Zhou Xiaojing
6,665 words, approx. 22 pages
In the following essay, Xiaojing examines the cross-cultural contexts and influences on Lee's poetry, extending his observations beyond the poet's ethnicity.
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Critical Essay by Zhou Xiaojing
6,196 words, approx. 21 pages
In the essay below, Zhou contends that "Li-Young Lee's poems enact and embody the processes of poetic innovation and identity invention beyond the boundaries of any single cultural heritage or ethnic identity."
 


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