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The City in which I Love You
The City in which I Love You: Poems | Li-Young Lee
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Contents I.Furious VersionisII.The InterrogationThis Hour And What Is DeadArise, Go DownMy Father, In Heaven, Is Reading Out LoudFor A New Citizen Of These United StatesWith RuinsIII.This Room And Everything In ItThe City In Which I Love YouIV.The WaitingA StoryGoodnightYou Must SingHere I AmA Final ThingV.The Cleaving
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LiterRohde
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From “A Story”

“‘Please, Baba, a story?‘
It is an emotional rather than logical equation,
an earthly rather than heavenly one,
which posits that a boy's supplications
and a father's love add up to silence.”

📙: https://poets.org/poem/story-0

#PoetryMatters | 4: #Book

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TheSpineView 💝 💝 Excellent! 5y
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Lesliereads
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“And when, in the city in which I love you,/even my most excellent song goes unanswered,/and I mount the scabbed streets,/the long shouts of avenues,/and tunnel sunken night in search of you....” #poetry #knittingandreading #readingandknitting

Nute The book title already has grabbed me! 6y
Lesliereads Yes! 6y
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Nafiza
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I didn't love all the poems in here but the ones that I did were whoa.

#poetry