David Lee: A Listener's Guide

by David Lee, Copper Canyon Press

Reading from: A Legacy of Shadows and News from Down to the Café. This CD includes ten tracks along with a a 36-page booklet on the poet and his craft.Tracks Include: 1 Loading a Boar 2 Salvage Grain 3 Jan's Birthday 4 For Jan, with Love 5 Ugly 6 Mean 7 Willie and the Water Pipe 8 Benediction 9 The Twenty-one Gun Salute 10 from Driving and Drinking.

David Lee was the subject of a recent PBS documentary, The Pig Poet. Winner of the 1995 Western States Book Award, Lee has also been the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities. He lives in St. George, Utah.

32 pages, Audio CD

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

David Lee is the author of more than fifteen books of poetry including So Quietly the Earth, published by Copper Canyon Press in 2004. In 1997 he was named Utah s first Poet Laureate and has received the Utah Governor s award for lifetime achievement in the arts. A former seminary candidate, semi-pro baseball player, and hog farmer, he has a Ph.D. with a concentration in the poetry of John Milton. He taught in the Department of Language and Literature at Southern Utah University for three decades, where he received every teaching award presented, including teacher of the year three times.