The Undressing
Poems
3 April 2020
Territory Rights — Worldwide.
Description
Celebrated poet Li-Young Lee returns with a breathtaking new volume about the violence of desire and the peace of love.
The Undressing is a tonic for spiritual anemia; it attempts to uncover things hidden since the dawn of the world. Short of achieving that end, these mysterious, unassuming poems investigate the human violence and dispossession increasingly prevalent around the world, as well as the horrors the poet grew up with as a child of refugees. Lee draws from disparate sources, including the Old Testament, the Dao De Jing and the music of the Wu Tang Clan. While the ostensive subjects of these layered, impassioned poems are wide-ranging, their driving engine is a burning need to understand our collective human mission.
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Dao De Jing
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A landmark translation of the timeless classic of Daoist wisdom, rendered in gorgeous poetry that illuminates its enduring teachings
The Invention of the Darling: Poems
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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
Hardback, 2024
A landmark translation of the timeless classic of Daoist wisdom, rendered in gorgeous poetry that illuminates its enduring teachings
The Invention of the Darling: Poems
Hardback, 2024
A New Yorker and Publishers Weekly Best Book of 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...
Behind My Eyes: Poems
Paperback, 2009
“Lee’s lyrics have a tidal sweep as he moves between the universe within and the world without.” —Booklist, starred review
