Tag Archives: Li Young Lee

For Easter Monday A Post from Easter Monday Six Years Ago! A God Who Eats Words – The Devotional poems of Adélia (Luzia) Prado (Freitas)

April 13, 2020 – 11:09 am

While writing a blog for today I came across a reference to the fabulous Brazilian poet Adélia Prado and then went searching for my blogs on her. And found this […]

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Where Does a Great Poem Point To? – Poems and Comments by Franz Wright and Li-Young Lee

August 8, 2016 – 3:58 pm

NOT NOW for Dzvinia Orlowsky Where is the the man of heaven in me— my body’s filthy, face and hands completely filthy with the man of dust This mask this […]

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The Bigness of Small Poems – # 16 in a Series – Li-Young Lee

May 21, 2016 – 1:20 pm

One Heart  Look at the birds. Even flying is born out of nothing. The first sky is inside you, open at either end of day. The work of wings was […]

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I Will be a Question Mark – Image Journal Interviews Li-Young Lee

October 2, 2015 – 1:37 am

from An Interview with Li-Young Lee LYL : The word quest is in that word question. I feel as if I’m going to live my life as a giant question […]

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National Poetry Month – Poets on Poetry # 2 – A Poem by Stephen Dunn

April 3, 2015 – 10:36 pm

                          Poet and priest were one in the beginning – only later times have separated them. The true […]

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It’s the Music First!

August 3, 2013 – 6:19 pm

One Heart Look at the birds. Even flying is born out of nothing. The first sky is inside you, open at either end of day. The work of wings was […]

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No Ordinary Luminary – Dorianne Laux

September 7, 2011 – 7:09 pm

The American poet Dorianne Laux (1952 – ) was unknown to me when I first met her at the Skagit River Poetry Festival in La Conner, Washington in 2002. But […]

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