Li-Young Lee

Very telling poems about the authors experience of totalitarian Malaysian government and his immigration to the US. Poems are written from his meaning to these events. I learned how to read them in a poetry class. An excellent selection to learn about poetry.

I quite like this collection, maybe because I'm reading backwards through his oeuvre and have different expectations. The Cleaving is breathtaking.

"But in poetry just by nature, we're using language as silence."

One of the many things I love about this collection.

I always find it near impossible to rate good poetry; it's such a personal thing that even if I tell you all the things I found good about it, you would take something completely different away from reading it. I can tell you that this collection of poems made me think, made me reflect on my life, made me see things from another point of view. And I enjoyed the experience. Beyond that, you would need to discover it for yourself.