Asterism

"Selected by John Murillo as the winner of the Dorset Prize, Asterism contemplates the wonders and challenges of polycentric living, ultimately interrogating capitalist enactments of fixed and exclusive belonging. Migrating between S. Korea, Peru, and the U.S., the poet finds luminous homes at the interstices of bridges, flight layovers, languages, desires, imperfect memories, and mutable mouths. Lee blurs the line between self and other as words translated into connotations meet on the page with portraits of co-inhabited identities, histories, and tender relationships. Throughout, each line longingly, bravely unfurls towards strangeness and beauty of her own making"--