“Aperitivo,” Hannibal | “Digestivo,” Hannibal | Phoebe Bridgers, “Killer” | Sylvia Plath, “Poem for a Birthday: Who” | Erica Jong, “Where it Begins” | Mitski, “Abbey” | Julia Kristeva, Powers of Horror | Li-Young Lee, “The Cleaving,” from The City In Which I Love You | deleted lines from “Ouef,” Hannibal | Ada Limón, “Lies About Sea Creatures,” from Bright Dead Things | Simone Weil, Waiting for God | Louise Glück, “Timor Mortis,” from Vita Nova | Catherynne M Valente, The Bread We Eat in Dreams | “The Wrath of the Lamb,” Hannibal | Anne Carson, “To Compostela,” Plainwater
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Then you’ll remember your life as a book of candles, each page read by the light of its own burning.
~Li-Young Lee
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a story, li-young lee
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“Secret body of deep liquor, I taste you down to your secret.”
— Li-Young Lee, Always a Rose.
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Li-Young Lee, The City in Which I Love You; from ‘This Room and Everything in It’
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— Li-Young Lee, I Loved You Before I Was Born
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Childhood? Which childhood? The one that didn't last? The one in which you learned to be afraid...?
Li-Young Lee, "A Hymn to Childhood," Ink Knows No Borders: Poems of the Immigrant and Refugee Experience
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“One Heart” by Li-Young Lee
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 always freedom, fastening
one heart to every fallen thing.
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“Love Succeeding,” by Li-Young Lee
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Eating Together
In the steamer is the trout
seasoned with slivers of ginger,
two sprigs of green onion, and sesame oil.
We shall eat it with rice for lunch,
brothers, sister, my mother who will
taste the sweetest meat of the head,
holding it between her fingers
deftly, the way my father did
weeks ago. Then he lay down
to sleep like a snow-covered road
winding through pines older than him,
without any travelers, and lonely for no one.
Li-Young Lee, Rose (1986) (Poetry Foundation)
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Li-Young Lee, "From Blossoms"
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