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Li-Young Lee

Li-Young Lee is a poet and translator. Lee’s honors include a Lannan Literary Award, Whiting Award, PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award, I. B. Lavan Award, three Pushcart Prizes, a William Carlos Williams award, fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Academy of American Poets, and many others. He received the 2024 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for Lifetime Achievement. Lee lives in Chicago.

Li-Young Lee

Li-Young Lee is a poet and translator. Lee’s honors include a Lannan Literary Award, Whiting Award, PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award, I. B. Lavan Award, three Pushcart Prizes, a William Carlos Williams award, fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Academy of American Poets, and many others. He received the 2024 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for Lifetime Achievement. Lee lives in Chicago.

Awards

Winner — Paterson Poetry Prize, 2009

Books by Li-Young Lee

  • Behind My Eyes: Poems

    Li-Young Lee

    Hardback, 2008

    A highly anticipated collection from one of the most powerful voices at work in America today.
  • Behind My Eyes: Poems

    Li-Young Lee

    Paperback, 2009

    “Lee’s lyrics have a tidal sweep as he moves between the universe within and the world without.” —Booklist, starred review
  • The Undressing: Poems

    Li-Young Lee

    Paperback, 2020

    Celebrated poet Li-Young Lee returns with a breathtaking new volume about the violence of desire and the peace of love.
  • Behind My Eyes: Poems

    Li-Young Lee

    E Book, 2009

    “Lee’s lyrics have a tidal sweep as he moves between the universe within and the world without.” —Booklist, starred review
  • The Undressing: Poems

    Li-Young Lee

    E Book, 2018

    “Immediate, sensual, unrelentingly intense.”—NPR
  • The Invention of the Darling: Poems

    Li-Young Lee

    Hardback, 2024

    Acclaimed poet Li-Young Lee offers a revelatory volume of ecstatic poems that search out divine voices in the silences of life, love, and death.
  • The Invention of the Darling: Poems

    Li-Young Lee

    E Book

    Acclaimed poet Li-Young Lee offers a revelatory volume of ecstatic poems that search out divine voices in the silences of life, love, and death.
  • Dao De Jing

    Laozi, Li-Young Lee, Yun Wang

    Hardback, 2024

    A landmark translation of the timeless classic of Daoist wisdom, rendered in gorgeous poetry that illuminates its enduring teachings
  • Dao De Jing

    Laozi, Li-Young Lee, Yun Wang

    E Book

    A landmark translation of the timeless classic of Daoist wisdom, rendered in gorgeous poetry that illuminates its enduring teachings