Li-Young
Lee
American Poets Continuum Series
Book of My Nights is the first poetry collection in eleven 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.
"His poems are
made from his life with his life; his poems are earned. He dares
to be simple. And he is surely among the finest young poets alive"
—The American Poetry Review
Heir
to All
What
I spill in a dream
runs
under my door,
ahead
of my arrival
and
the year's wide round,
to
meet me in the color of hills
at
dawn, or else collected
in
a flower's name
I trace
with my finger
in
a book. Proving
only
this: Listening is the ground
below
my sleep,
where
decision is born, and
whoever's
heard the title
autumn
knows him by
is
heir to all those
unfurnished
rooms inside the roses.
©
BOA Editions, Ltd 2001
Available editions:
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Cloth
ISBN: 1-929918-07-0
Price: $21.95
Publishing Date: September 2001
Paperback
ISBN: 1-929918-08-9
Price: $14.50
Publishing Date: September 2001
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