Product Description: There's an undeniable audacity in a poet using the word "joy" in our modern world. In her new book, Karen An-hwei Lee combines scientific precision and an appetite for far-flung vocabularies with a fascination for the sources of rapturous emotion...read more

Product Description: “Lee’s strange and gemological arrangements are the measure of her gift. . . .”—from the Foreword by Heather McHughIn the form of an eccentric dictionary, this debut brings to mind the long poems of Anne Carson. In compressed and oddly slanted “definitions,” Lee’s poems move through the alphabet in an attempt to limn the border between language and spirit...read more