The Winged Seed: A Remembrance Lee Li-Young Paperback
The Winged Seed: A Remembrance Lee Li-Young Paperback It has true spiritual importance for contemporary American literature.--Edward HirschUpon its initial publication, acclaimed poet Li-Young Lee's…
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The Winged Seed: A Remembrance Lee Li-Young Paperback
It has true spiritual importance for contemporary American literature.--Edward HirschUpon its initial publication, acclaimed poet Li-Young Lee's memoir The Winged Seed: A Remembrance (1995), received an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. Along with many other Chinese members of the population, his family was persecuted under President Sukarno. In lyrical prose, Lee's extraordinary story begins in the 1950s when his parents fled China's political turmoil for Indonesia.
While his entire family was being transported to a prison colony, they escaped and fled to Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, and back to Hong Kong where his father rose to prominence as an evangelical preacher. Falsely accused and charged for crimes against the state, his father spent a year and a half in jail as a political prisoner, half of that time in a leper colony. Eventually, the