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Li-Young Lee


Born
in Jakarta, Indonesia
August 19, 1957

Genre
Poetry, Asian Studies


Li-Young Lee is an American poet. He was born in Jakarta, Indonesia, to Chinese parents. His great-grandfather was Yuan Shikai, China's first Republican President, who attempted to make himself emperor. Lee's father, who was a personal physician to Mao Zedong while in China, relocated his family to Indonesia, where he helped found Gamaliel University. His father was exiled and spent a year in an Indonesian prison camp. In 1959 the Lee family fled the country to escape anti-Chinese sentiment and after a five-year trek through Hong Kong, Macau, and Japan, they settled in the United States in 1964. Li-Young Lee attended the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Arizona, and the State University of New York at Brockport.

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“A poem is like a score for the human voice.”
― Li-Young Lee
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“We suffer each other to have each other a while.”
― Li-Young Lee
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“I am that last, that
final thing, the body
in a white sheet listening,”
― Li-Young Lee
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