Author : Li-Young Lee
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 039386720X
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (938 download)
Book Synopsis The Invention of the Darling: Poems by : Li-Young Lee
Download or read book The Invention of the Darling: Poems written by Li-Young Lee and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2024-05-14 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. “The poet of rapture and tenderness” (Major Jackson, American Poets), Li-Young Lee speaks these poems with the intimacy and primacy of a whisper, as if from a lover to a beloved, or a believer to God. Each poem in The Invention of the Darling is a mysterious conjunction of spirit and matter, movement and stillness, the divine and the mundane, the sacred and the forbidden. They yearn for holistic union with The Beloved, every sentence another name for The Beloved, every poem another way to say “I love you.” Forged in awe of life and love, these poems emerge from the unlit depths of our earthly, material desires and our deepest fears of mortality.