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--The Corresponder
"This is poetry at its richest...perceptive and haunting, [Lee's] stories are heartfelt [and] make your soul sing..."
--ImaginAsian TV (New York)
"[Lee] shines a spotlight on...immigrants...adolescents, an ex-porn star--outcasts, dreamers, pretenders...longing to take on a new identity"
--St. Paul Pioneer Press
"[A] beautifully complex, contradictory, and insistently compelling world...this is a book that opens up new possibilities for American poetry."
--Jim Moore, author of "Lightning at Dinner"
"These poems come in rapid fire from a world at war with change and loss, forgetfulness and memory. Ed Bok Lee's words hit like pellets. He delivers amazing lines: "we learn to navigate by drowning." Lee is a truth teller of the immigrant experience in our vast and diverging demography. He brings the world right up in our face. The narrator is unforgettable--as well as his characters such as the man who looks for a wife "with oceanic lungs who can blow life into the spirit he's lost." Lee brings knowledge of what it is like to settle in the current New America, updating the European immigrant experience of the last century--providing a latter to the earlier America. There is voltage in these hard lessons--these secrets on how to survive. Lee's words are his navigational devices. He speaks with profound energy in this first collection [of poems and prose]-- A fire burns here."
--Diane Glancy, author of The Cold-and-Hunger Dance
"[S]tories that stay with you long after you've put the book down...about how language ties us to each other in the most devastating ways, and about how it always carries the weight of both personal and collective history....Lee is not hemmed in by narrow definitions of voice. He finds voice in everything - even in the spiritual, the indescribable....This very open approach to voice, coupled with the book's subject matter may be why Real Karaoke People feels so epic...Lee mixes the rawness of South Minneapolis street life with the brutal imaginings of parents and grandparents living through the Korean war, sometimes all in one stanza. Reading these poems and prose, you feel as if the history of an entire generation... is pouring out in front of your eyes..."
--Thinking Souls: On-line Literary Series and Monthly Book Club
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