Hai-Dang's review
Behind My Eyes: Poems (with audio CD)
by Li-Young Lee
Hai-Dang's review
Behind My Eyes: Poems (with audio CD) by Li-Young Lee
Hai-Dang's review
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At the Li-Young Lee reading I eagerly attended the other week, I sat next to a professor of mine, who after we greeted each other, said to me, "I thought Lee's not your style." She was referring, I think, to my disfavor of the Billy Collins School of Poetry, the bite-sized lyric poem bursting with laughing and crying, filled with morsels of worldly wonder and self-knowledge. I took it as a mock-accusation and at the time could only muster a short, "But I do like his poetry. And besides, I think his stuff is not as straightforward and accessible as the dusk jacket promises..." Fortunately, the lights dimmed and the reading began before I really had to defend myself and my anomalous taste for Li-Young Lee's poetry.
