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two_if_by_sea

an account of their histories.

Jul 31, 2009 19:49

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, J. K. ROWLING. Thank you for making it so that I can recognize when my co-worker is reading The Harry Potter Lexicon, even from all the way across the room ( Read more... )

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bookshop August 1 2009, 01:13:25 UTC

this is so beautiful. :(

♥

two_if_by_sea August 1 2009, 02:40:35 UTC

This one is my favorite from the book, though ( ... )

zauberer_sirin August 1 2009, 08:27:04 UTC

omg this one is even more amazing.

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two_if_by_sea August 1 2009, 02:41:27 UTC

I know. ;_; I love him so much, he's only gotten better and better over the years.

motorbike August 1 2009, 01:52:56 UTC

This gave me goosebumps, wow!

two_if_by_sea August 1 2009, 02:41:46 UTC

♥ glad to spread the love.

loftily August 1 2009, 04:00:02 UTC

I love Li-Young Lee so much. He is so amazing. The City In Which I Love You will probably always be my favorite, though.

p.s. I want that fic, a lot.

two_if_by_sea August 1 2009, 04:08:31 UTC

See, I feel like I'm the only one who likes him for his father poems and not for his love poems. Most of his love poems make me yawn, but the ones about his dad, or his brother, or his family, or being an immigrant can make me cry. "Have You Prayed" moves me to tears, and "Eating Alone" is just so perfect, and whenever I get to the end of "Persimmons", I'm always like ;_; forever.

p.s. I WANT IT TOO. YOU SHOULD WRITE IT FOR ME :D

zauberer_sirin August 1 2009, 08:28:53 UTC

wow. just wow. it's really heartbreaking. i can't handle father-son stuff, it just gets me there, you know.

two_if_by_sea August 1 2009, 14:45:35 UTC

You really really should check out Behind My Eyes then. It's incredible, and he has this side by side pair of poems, "My Mother's Apple" and "My Father's Apple", and it's just, omg, and then there's this poem where he talks about a father being taken away by soldiers, and the mother presses the boy to her skirt, and the father shouts at them, "Let him see!" and it's just like. ;_; Because his great grandfather was YUAN SHIKAI, I BELIEVE, and his father WAS THE PERSONAL PHYSICIAN TO MAO ZEDONG, and it's like, his life is insane, and when he writes about his father, with whom he had this really intense, contentious but deeply loving relationship, it's like how most people write about their personal relationship with spirituality. ;_;