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 Lee, Karen An-hwei Lee
• Publisher: Wiley
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.02.2012
• EAN: 9781932195149
• ISBN: 978-1-932195-14-9
• No. of pages: 66
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 8 mm
• Weight: 113 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Poetry, Relating to Asian American people, POETRY / American / Asian American & Pacific Islander, Poetry / Poems