Li-Young Lee (李立揚, pinyin: Lǐ Lìyáng) (born August 19, 1957) is an American poet. He was born in Jakarta, Indonesia, to Chinese parents.His great-grandfather was Yuan ...
Li-Young Lee was born in 1957 in Jakarta, Indonesia, to Chinese parents. His father had been a personal physician to Mao Zedong while in China, and relocated the family to ...
three poems by Li-Young Lee: A Story, Early in the Morning, and The Gift, from ROSE (1986) and from THE CITY IN WHICH I LOVE YOU (1990), reproduced with permission of BOA Editions ...
Li-Young Lee (1957 - ) Born to parents who had been exiled from China, Li-Young Lee fled with his family from China, to Indonesia, as well as through Hong Kong, Macau, and Japan ...
Illinois Poet Laureate Nominations ... Li-Young Lee. Li-Young Lee’s work is lush and often passionate, deeply infused with the spices – both sweet and tart – of human memory.
Family History. Li-Young Lee was born in Djakarta, Indonesia in 1957, the son of exiled Chinese parents. His mother came from a noble family; her father, Yuan Shi-kai, was the ...
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