The City in Which I Love You
Book description
Contents
I.
Furious Versionis
II.
The Interrogation
This Hour And What Is Dead
Arise, Go Down
My Father, In Heaven, Is Reading Out Loud
For A New Citizen Of These United States
With Ruins
III.
This Room And Everything In It
The City In Which I Love You
IV.
The…
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Why read it?
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I’m not typically a poetry reader because poetic language often requires a lot of work to unpack. However, I read The City in Which I Love You by Li-Young Lee because it was assigned in my “Writing Across the Genre” class. This book completely changed my perspective, making me realize that poetry might be the most revealing genre when it comes to a writer’s inner world.
Before we began our class discussion, our professor showed us a few minutes of Lee’s speech. The most profound part was his discussion of “the double life”—a life of scarcity versus a life of…