Whorled
A poetry collection that looks for a place to stand in a world where borders of nation, religion, race, and history blur. It treats global movement and loss as motion in language.
Work Information
Poetry searches for a place inside a world in motion.
As a collection by Ed Bok Lee, the book moves between war, migration, and cultural collision to open up a sense of self and community. Urgency and celebration coexist throughout.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Coffee House Pr
- Published
- 2011-08-23
- Pages
- 118 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 15.24 x 1.27 x 22.86 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781566892780
- ISBN-10
- 1566892783
- Price
- 3037 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Poetry/American
What does it mean to be a Global Citizen in an era of constant war, rampant industrialization, and ever-advancing technology? Lee’s ever-wandering cultural and spiritual nomads struggle to make sense of what it means to be a citizen of an increasingly homeless world. In a world where "all love is immigrant," Whorled confronts and celebrates the many complications of global politics through meditations on war, migration, and culture. In settings from San Francisco to Seoul, the Midwest to Kazakhstan, Ed Bok Lee considers what it means to be a citizen in a world where "you can't win the past / or stalk redemption." Raised in South Korea, North Dakota, and Minnesota, Ed Bok Lee is the author of Real Karaoke People , which won the PEN Open Book Award. He is an assistant professor at Metropolitan State University in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Ed Bok Lee is the author of Real Karaoke People , winner of a PEN Open Book Award, an Asian American Literary Award (Members’ Choice) and a Many Voices Prize. Raised in South Korea, North Dakota and Minnesota, Lee has worked a variety of jobs in over a dozen U.S. states and abroad. He has studied Slavic, East Asian and Central Asian languages and literatures in America, South Korea, Russia and Kazakhstan and earned an MFA from Brown University. A recipient of grants from such foundations as the McKnight, Jerome and National Endowment for the Arts, Lee is an assistant professor at Metropolitan State University.
Reviews
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Sensitive and Haunting
The author pours his heart into his writing in a way that opens my own.
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... the first book of poetry that I fell in love with. It's amazing
This is the first book of poetry that I fell in love with. It's amazing. I recommend it to anyone.