"Countless gorgeous details provide, in poem after poem, distinct delights."
- Dan Chiasson - The New Yorker,
"[Lee] challenges readers to think and to feel more deeply."
- Elizabeth Lund - Washington Post,
"Few poets write like Li-Young Lee…facing the biggest and broadest questions head-on…Fewer still ask these questions so well, and so movingly."
- Craig Morgan Teicher - Los Angeles Times,
"[Li-Young] Lee’s elegance transports us into the aspirations of yearning."
- David Biespiel - American Poetry Review,
"Delight[s] in revelations that are holy and intimate…[Lee’s] wisdom situates itself in a fresh way."
- Derek JG Williams - Rumpus,
"[Lee’s work] ground[s] the mysteries of existence in the plain imagery of the everyday."
- Deborah Shapiro - Chicago Magazine,
"Li-Young Lee’s [poems] tackle love and violence with equal curiosity"
- Chicago Review of Books,