Poetry. Asian American Studies. ARDOR is a book-length poem comprised of lucid dreams, letters, and prayers with the sensual feminine awareness of C. D. Wright, the radiant spirituality of Fanny Howe, the playful erudition of Anne Carson, and the linguistic play of Myung Mi Kim. Ardor employs ecstatic utterances, linguistic migrations, silences, and women's voices in a feminine consciousness lingering on the mystery of love and glossolalia, speaking tongues in the context of a lyric postmodern aesthetic.

Author City: SANTA ANA, CA USA

Karen An-hwei Lee is the author of PHYLA OF JOY (Tupelo Press, 2012), ARDOR (Tupelo Press, 2008), and In Medias Res (Sarabande Books, 2004), selected for the Kathryn A. Morton Prize by Heather McHugh and chosen for the Norma Farber First Book Award by Cole Swensen. A former writing resident at the MacDowell Colony of the Arts and the Millay Arts Colony and recipient of a National Endowment of the Arts grant, she currently chairs the English Department at a faith-based college in southern California, where she is also a novice harpist.

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