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Li-Young Lee (李立揚, , 1957 ) is an American Poet . He was born in Jakarta , Indonesia to Chinese parents. FAMILY HISTORY Li-Young Lee was born in 1957 in Jakarta, Indonesia, of Chinese parents. His father, who was a personal physician to Mao Zedong while in China, relocated his family to Indonesia, where he helped found Gamaliel University. In 1959 the Lee family fled the country to escape anti-Chinese sentiment and after a five-year trek through Hong Kong, Macau, and Japan, they settled in the United States in 1964. Li-Young Lee attended the Universities of Pittsburgh and Arizona, and the State University of New York at Brockport. He has taught at several universities, including Northwestern and the University of Iowa. He is the author of ''Book of My Nights'' (BOA Editions, 2001); ''The City in Which I Love You'' (1991), which was the 1990 Lamont Poetry Selection; and ''Rose'' (1986), which won the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Poetry Award; as well as a memoir entitled ''The Winged Seed: A Remembrance'' (Simon and Schuster, 1995), which received an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. His other honors include a Lannan Literary Award, a Whiting Writer's Award, grants from the Illinois Arts Council, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts, and a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship. He lives in Chicago, Illinois, with his wife, Donna, and their two sons. DEVELOPMENT AS A POET Lee attended the University Of Pittsburgh , where he began to develop his love for writing. He had seen his father find his passion for ministry and as a result of his father reading to him and encouraging Lee to find his passion, Lee began to dive into the art of language. Lee’s writing has also been influenced by classic Chinese poets, Li Bo and Tu Fu . Many of Lee’s poems are filled with themes of simplicity, strength, and silence. All are strongly influenced by his family history, childhood, and individuality. He writes with simplicity and passion which creates images that take the reader deeper and also requires his audience to fill in the gaps with their own imagination. These feelings of exile and boldness to rebel take shape as they provide common themes for many of his poems. Lee often writes from personal experience and uses poetry to tell his story, yet it hits shared themes of mankind so others can familiarize with his writings. CAREER Lee has attended the University Of Pittsburgh , the University Of Arizona , and the State University Of New York at Brockport. He has taught at Stanford University , Northwestern University , the University Of Iowa , the Asian American Writers Workshop in New York City, and Kearny Street Workshop in San Francisco. Lee's poems have also been published in three '' Pushcart Prize : Best of Small Presses'' A new book is forthcoming by W.W. Norton in the fall of 2007. LEE’S INFLUENCE ON ASIAN AMERICAN POETRY Li-Young Lee has been an established Asian American poet who has been doing interviews for the past twenty years. ''Breaking the Alabaster Jar: Conversations with Li-Young Lee'' (BOA Editions, 2006, ed. Earl G. Ingersoll), is the first edited and published collection of interviews with an Asian American poet. In this collection, Earl G. Ingersoll asks "conversational" questions to bring out Lee’s views on Asian American poetry, writing, and identity. AWARDS AND HONORS Lee has won numerous poetry awards: {Link without Title}
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY Poetry
Memoir
Interviews Interviews by: Michael Silverblatt EXTERNAL LINKS
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