Acclaimed poet Li-Young Lee is the author of two books of poetry: The City in Which I Love You (BOA Editions, 1991), which was the 1990 Lamont Poetry Selection; and Rose (1986), which won the Delmore ...

Because to God must be given the things that belong to God, and to the world must be given the things that belong to the world, I kiss you with both lips, upper and lower. Because the world keeps ...

Li-Young Lee is a recipient of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize and the author of several volumes of poetry, most recently The Invention of the Darling and I Ask my Mother to Sing.