Phyla of Joy

By Karen An-hwei Lee

Book Overview

"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 Gonz lez

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1932195149
• ISBN13: 9781932195149
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Tupelo Press
• Length: 66 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"