A Conversation with Li-Young Lee
Location
Memorial Union Ballroom
Event Website
http://www.undwritersconference.org
Start Date
29-3-2007 8:00 PM
End Date
29-3-2007 9:00 PM
Description
In this audiovisual recording from Thursday, March 29, 2007, as part of the 38th Annual UND Writers Conference: “Writing the Body,” Li-Young Lee reads a selection of poems from his then-unpublished collection Behind My Eyes and discusses art and the human existence. Lee reads “Station,” the then-untitled “A Hymn to Childhood,” “Self-help for Fellow Refugees,” and “Immigrant Blues. Lee begins and ends the event with a discussion of aesthetic consciousness, duality of existence, poetry as dialogue between lovers, his father's political life in China, philosophy of poetry, and religion in poetry. Lee closes with a reading of “After the Pyre” and “Trading for Heaven.”
Introduced and moderated by Dr. Heidi Czerwiec, Department of English.
A Conversation with Li-Young Lee
Memorial Union Ballroom
In this audiovisual recording from Thursday, March 29, 2007, as part of the 38th Annual UND Writers Conference: “Writing the Body,” Li-Young Lee reads a selection of poems from his then-unpublished collection Behind My Eyes and discusses art and the human existence. Lee reads “Station,” the then-untitled “A Hymn to Childhood,” “Self-help for Fellow Refugees,” and “Immigrant Blues. Lee begins and ends the event with a discussion of aesthetic consciousness, duality of existence, poetry as dialogue between lovers, his father's political life in China, philosophy of poetry, and religion in poetry. Lee closes with a reading of “After the Pyre” and “Trading for Heaven.”
Introduced and moderated by Dr. Heidi Czerwiec, Department of English.
https://commons.und.edu/writers-conference/2007/day3/3
Comments
Restricted content, digitization planned.