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The Winged Seed: A Remembrance - Li-Young Lee's Award-Winning Memoir
This reissued edition of The Winged Seed: A Remembrance presents Li-Young Lee's heart-wrenching memoir with a new foreword by the author and previously unpublished photographs.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.
About This Memoir
Published originally in 1995 by Simon and Schuster, The Winged Seed 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.
The 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.
What's Included in This Edition
- New foreword by Li-Young Lee
- Never-before-seen family photographs
- Complete original text of the award-winning memoir
- Paperback format
About the Author
Li-Young Lee is the author of four critically acclaimed poetry collections: Behind My Eyes (W.W. Norton, 2008), Book of My Nights (BOA Editions, 2001), Rose (BOA, 1986), winner of the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award from New York University, and The City in Which I Love You (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, Poetry of Resilience.
Through 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.
He lives in Chicago with his wife Donna and their two sons.
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