Phyla of Joy

"Karen An-hwei Lee's third book is a beautiful and sustained meditation on the impermanence of humanity's essential components: memory, spirituality, emotion, thought....Contemplative and linguistically sophisticated,Phyla of Joy is simply exquisite -'ink and stanza / flow like wind on grass.'" - Rigoberto González



There's an undeniable audacity in a poet using the word "joy" in our beleaguered world. In her new book, Karen An-hwei Lee combines scientific precision and an appetite for far-flung vocabularies with a fascination for the sources of rapturous emotion.



In poems that roam from the intimacy of prayer to the art of brewing tea, from bamboo-related famine to quasars, the globe's minor seas, and the nuptial flight of ants, Phyla of Joy reaches toward ecstasy.

Product details

• Authors: Karen An-Hwei Lee, Karen Lee
• Publisher: Wiley
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 29.02.2012
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama
• EAN: 9781932195149
• ISBN: 978-1-932195-14-9
• Pages: 66
• Dimensions (packing): 15.2 x 22.9 x 0.8 cm
• Weight (packing): 113 g
• Subjects: Emotion, memory, Joy, Discovery, Language, Poetry, Spirituality, Prayer, Visual, Relating to Asian American people, POETRY / American / Asian American & Pacific Islander, intimate, feminine, Poetry / Poems, contemplative, Reverence