"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 for The Beloved, every poem another way to say "I love you." Forged in awe of life and love, these poems emerge from the unlit depths of our earthly, material desires and our deepest fears of mortality.


Author: Li-Young Lee
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 05/14/2024
Pages: 144
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.70w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780393867190


Review Citation(s): 
Booklist 06/01/2024 pg. 14
Publishers Weekly 08/19/2024