Behind my eyes / Li-Young Lee.
Author: Lee, Li-Young, 1957-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton, c2008.
ISBN: 9780393065428
0393065421
Description: 106 p. ; 24 cm. + 1 sound disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
Subject(s): American poetry Chinese American authors.
American poetry 21st century.
Notes: Accompanying CD includes twenty-two poems from this book read by the poet.
Poems.
Contents: In his own shadow -- Self-help for fellow refugees -- Mother deluxe -- Become becoming -- Have you prayed -- A hymn to childhood -- Immigrant blues -- Sweet peace in time -- Seven happy endings -- Lake effect -- Trading for heaven -- My favorite kingdom -- Evening hieroglyph -- First world -- The mother's apple -- The father's apple -- The apple elopes -- My clothes lie folded for the journey -- To life -- Seven Marys -- Descended from dreamers -- Parable of the jar -- Little ache -- Cuckoo flower on the witness stand -- After the pyre -- The sea with fish -- Changing places in the fire -- God seeks a destiny -- Secret life -- The lives of a voice -- The shortcut home -- Standard checklist for amateur mystics -- Bring home her name -- A winter day -- Virtues of the boring husband -- To hold -- Living with her -- Dying stupid -- Station.
