The Invention of the Darling: Poems

By: Lee, Li-Young

"The poet of rapture and tenderness" (Major Jackson, American Poets), Li-Young Lee speaks these poems with the intimacy and primacy of a whisper, as if from a lover to a beloved, or a believer to God. Each poem in The Invention of the Darling is a mysterious conjunction of spirit and matter, movement and stillness, the divine and the mundane, the sacred and the forbidden. They yearn for holistic union with The Beloved, every sentence another name...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393867196
• ISBN13: 9780393867190
• Release Date: May 2024
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.3"