{"product_id":"the-winged-seed-a-remembrance-9781938160042","title":"The Winged Seed: A Remembrance","description":"\u003ch2\u003eThe Winged Seed: A Remembrance - Li-Young Lee's Award-Winning Memoir\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis reissued edition of \u003cstrong\u003eThe Winged Seed: A Remembrance\u003c\/strong\u003e presents Li-Young Lee's heart-wrenching memoir with a new foreword by the author and previously unpublished photographs. Winner of an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation, this literary memoir chronicles Lee's extraordinary family history through exile, loss, and resilience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout This Memoir\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePublished originally in 1995 by Simon and Schuster, \u003cem\u003eThe Winged Seed\u003c\/em\u003e documents the harrowing journey of the Lee family across continents. Born in 1957 in Jakarta, Indonesia, to Chinese parents, Li-Young Lee's early life was marked by political upheaval and displacement. His great grandfather served as China's first republican President, while his father, a devout Christian physician, treated Communist leader Mao Tse-Tung before the family's escape to Indonesia after the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe narrative traces the family's five-year trek through Hong Kong, Macau, and Japan following his father's year as a political prisoner in President Sukarno's jails, culminating in their settlement in the United States in 1964. Through lyrical prose, Lee transforms these experiences of exile and anti-Chinese persecution into a profound meditation on family, identity, and belonging.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat's Included in This Edition\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew foreword by Li-Young Lee\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNever-before-seen family photographs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eComplete original text of the award-winning memoir\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePaperback format\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLi-Young Lee\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of four critically acclaimed poetry collections: \u003cem\u003eBehind My Eyes\u003c\/em\u003e (W.W. Norton, 2008), \u003cem\u003eBook of My Nights\u003c\/em\u003e (BOA Editions, 2001), \u003cem\u003eRose\u003c\/em\u003e (BOA, 1986), winner of the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award from New York University, and \u003cem\u003eThe City in Which I Love You\u003c\/em\u003e (BOA, 1991), the 1990 Lamont Poetry Selection. His honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Lannan Foundation, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, as well as grants from the Illinois Arts Council, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. In 1988 he received the Writer's Award from the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation. He is also featured in Katja Esson's documentary, \u003cem\u003ePoetry of Resilience\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThrough observation and translation of silent moments, Lee's writing gives voice to the extraordinary beauty within humanity. His work reveals a dialogue between the eternal and the temporal, accentuating the joys and sorrows of family, home, loss, exile, and love. Anyone who has seen him read will attest that Lee is one of the finest poetry readers alive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHe lives in Chicago with his wife Donna and their two sons.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50493238903058,"sku":"9781938160042","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a47f46a3-59df-42d1-9805-1ad8e37c605b.jpg?v=1730639639","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-winged-seed-a-remembrance-9781938160042","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}