In this edition of HoCoPoLitSo's The Writing Life, poet and host Michael Collier speaks with Li-Young Lee in 1995 about poetry, prayerful attitudes and unconscious states. Lee reads his poem "Epistle" to start off the show, which Collier says acts as a sort of prologue to his first book of poetry, "Rose." Lee and Collier talk about poets being in a condition to know things, and how that knowing becomes forgetting. Poets spend everything they have to write the poem. Lee reads "Final Thing," about waking up and listening from outside the room to his wife read to their son. For Lee, everything is language, everything is discourse: the trees, mountains, clouds. From his memoir, "The Winged Seed," Lee reads a selection about riddles, and explains that he wrote the book to help him get beyond his personal story, to purify himself after his traumatic childhood. For more information about HoCoPoLitSo, to order copies of this show on DVD, or to discover the public programs HoCoPoLitSo (the Howard County Poetry and Literature Society) offers in Columbia, Maryland, visit www.hocopolitso.org.
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Li-Young Lee, a conversation of poetry and consciousness
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