But he's a philosophic poet, too, asking profound questions." David Daniel in the
Harvard Book Review describes Lee's book as "a powerful, often ecstatic pursuit of a background...against which what he has to say has its meaning."
Lee's poetry has already attracted much attention. In the December 1990 meeting of the Modern Language Association in Chicago, he, Kyoto Mori, and David Mura were the featured writers of the Asian American Reading Group. Since then, Lee's standing among the Asian American and the larger American writing community has continued to grow. His work is admired because of its intensity and power, and because it represents so well the aspirations and concerns of post-1965 Asian Americans. The Asian immigrants arriving on United States shores as a result of the 1965 immigration reforms come from a multitude of distinct cultures, so that today the term Asian American can include Laotians, Indonesians, Vietnamese, Thai, Hmong, Indians, Sri Lankans, and Chinese from Hong Kong or Taiwan, as well as those from traditional immigrant countries such as Korea and China. Lee's poetry reflects the new reality of a global power structure developed and perpetuated by transactional capital.
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