I Ask My Mother to Sing: Mother Poems of Li-Young Lee

I Ask My Mother to Sing: Mother Poems of Li-Young Lee

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I Ask My Mother to Sing contains five decades of poems by the acclaimed Asian-American poet, Li-Young Lee about his own mother and the many meanings of motherhood. This collection follows Lee’s entire career, from his debut Rose (BOA, 1986) to his most recent book, The Invention of the Darling (W.W. Norton, 2024). The chapbook also includes seven new and previously unpublished poems.

“Lee’s work is often about the ways in which personal life can be understood as ceremony: his poems are nearly Eucharistic in their stately mingling of body and belief, blood and words.”

Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker,”‘The Undressing’: Poetry of Passion Laid Bare”

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I Ask My Mother to Sing contains five decades of poems by the acclaimed Asian-American poet, Li-Young Lee about his own mother and the many meanings of motherhood. This collection follows Lee’s entire career, from his debut Rose (BOA, 1986) to his most recent book, The Invention of the Darling (W.W. Norton, 2024). The chapbook also includes seven new and previously unpublished poems.

“Lee’s work is often about the ways in which personal life can be understood as ceremony: his poems are nearly Eucharistic in their stately mingling of body and belief, blood and words.”

Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker,”‘The Undressing’: Poetry of Passion Laid Bare”

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