Phyla of Joy
Karen Lee
(Author)
Description
Poetry. Asian American Studies. Karen An-hwei Lee's third book is a beautiful and sustained meditation on the impermanence of humanity's essential components: memory, spirituality, emotion, thought.... Contemplative and linguistically sophisticated, PHYLA OF JOY is simply exquisite--'ink and stanza / flow like wind on grass.'--Rigoberto GonzálezThere's an undeniable audacity in a poet using the word joy in our beleaguered world. In her new book, Karen An-hwei Lee combines scientific precision and an appetite for far-flung vocabularies with a fascination for the sources of rapturous emotion.
In poems that roam from the intimacy of prayer to the art of brewing tea, from bamboo-related famine to quasars, the globe's minor seas, and the nuptial flight of ants, PHYLA OF JOY reaches toward ecstasy.
Product Details
Price
$16.95
$15.59
Publisher
Tupelo Press
Publish Date
February 28, 2012
Pages
66
Dimensions
6.0 X 9.0 X 0.18 inches | 0.27 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781932195149
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About the Author
Karen Lee is a Fellow of the Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge.