Book of My Nights

Poetry. "His poems are made from his life with hislife; his poems are earned. He dares to be simple. And he is surely among thefinest young poets alive"-The American Poetry Review. Li-Young Lee is theauthor of the poetry collections THE CITY IN WHICH I LOVE YOU and ROSE, bothavailable at SPD, and a book-length prose poem, The Winged Seed. Two Lannanvideotapes of readings by Li-Young Lee are also available from SPD. He has beenthe recipient of many literary awards, most recently The Lannan FoundationLiterary Award, The American Book Award of the Before Columbus Foundation, andThe PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award. "Lee's meditative bent is his own-pliable,open-ended, unpredictable-and not imitative. For Lee, life is clearly a web ofbeauties, terrors and triumphs"-Chicago Magazine.