LiYoung Lee

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Li-Young Lee
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History

• Lee was born in 1957 in Jakarta, Indonesia.
• His father was a political prisoner in President
  Sukarno's jails.
• In 1959, the Lees left the country to escape
  anti-Chinese sentiment.
• Between 1959 and 1964, the Lee family traveled
  throughout Hong Kong, Macau and Japan. They soon
  arrived in America.
• Lee attended the University of Pittsburgh,
  University Arizona, and the State University of
  New York at Brockport.

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Books and Poems

• Rose (BOA Editions, Ltd., 1986)
• The City in Which I Love You (BOA Editions, Ltd.,
  1990)
• The Winged Seed A Rememberance  (NY Simon
  Schuster, 1995)
• My Book of Nights (BOA Editions, 2001)

• A Story
• Early in the Morning
• The Gift
• The Father's House
• For a New Citizen of These United States
• This Hour and What is Dead
• Visions and Interpretations
• I ask my Mother to Sing
• Eating Together
• Eating Alone
• Early in the Morning
• Persimmons

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Contributions

• Taught at several universities, one of which was
  the University of Iowa.

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Awards

• American Book Award from the Before Columbus
  Foundation (The Winged Seed A Remembrance)
• Delmore Schwartz Memorial Poetry Award (Rose)
• 1990 Lamont Poetry Selection (The City in Which I
  Love You)
• Lannan Literary Award
• 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

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Works Cited

• http//www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?45442B7C000C0
  40C01
• www.google.com (for pictures)
• http//www.eng.fju.edu.tw/English_Literature/us_po
  etry/Li/biography (poem titles)