Nina's review
Behind My Eyes: Poems (with audio CD) by Li-Young Lee
I have been waiting for a new Li Young Lee book for a long, long time. I read the poem "Persimmons" in high school and it was the first poem I really fell in love with. Around that time I found 4 or 5 of his poems from Rose and The City in Which I Love You that I read over and over again for years - I just found them deeply moving (and still do). That said, there were some poems in this new collection that were equally amazing. Unfortunately, there were others that really disappointed me - they felt contrived and lacked the courage and nakedness of his earlier poems. But those few great poems of course make this book worth it. If you haven't read anything by him, I would recommend reading his earlier collections first.
