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.


Author: Karen An-Hwei Lee
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Tupelo Press
Published: 02/29/2012
Pages: 66
Weight: 0.27lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.18d
ISBN: 9781932195149