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Poet Li-Young Lee on Awe, Adoration, and Turning Toward the Unknown

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By Li-Young Lee
| Tricycle Talks
Tricycle is pleased to offer the Tricycle Talks podcast for free. If you would like to support this offering, please consider donating. Thank you! For poet Li-Young Lee, writing is a deeply spiritual practice. Taking inspiration from Daoist and Christian texts, his poems investigate the paradoxical relationships between silence and sound, stillness and motion, and form and formlessness.
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Her Gaze

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By Li-Young Lee
| Tricycle Buddhist Magazine Verified
The following is a composite of perspectives from two interviews with Li-Young Lee conducted by Oliver Egger. It’s impossible for me to talk about my mother. She comes before everything, before words, before the world, and before words for the world. Before syntax. My mother is difficult to think about and to talk about because she was one of the most mysterious people I’ve ever met.
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‘Counting the Ten Thousand Things’

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By Li-Young Lee
| Tricycle Buddhist Magazine Verified
For poet Li-Young Lee, writing has always been a spiritual matter. “I go into some room in my heart or in my soul where it’s just me and God,” Lee tells Christal Ann Rice Cooper for the Asian American Times. “Poetry, contemplation, worship, prayer, all of those kinds of things are in one house but different rooms.
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