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Review by Carolee Gearhart For those who complain poetry is inaccessible, Anthony A. Lee has a resounding answer with This Poem Means. With straightforward language his images are quickly clear and gripping, the physical and emotional components laid bare with his directness. This poignant volume continually circles back on itself, striking the same chords while riffing on different variations. There is a lulling, a hypnotic component to this repetition – bringing us into his experience. As one moves through the book however, it can feel like he is hammering the point home one too many times. Mr. Lee has come home to himself, and reminds us of that profundity in our own lives. Read an excerpt from this book opens in new window About the Author Anthony A. Lee is co-author of and teaches African American history and other subjects at West Los Angeles College. He is general editor of academic series, Studies in the Bábí and Bahá’í Religions (Kalimát Press), now in its seventeeth volume. His poems have been published in ONTHEBUS, The Homestead Review, Arts Dialogue among others. He is the winner of the Nat Turner Poetry Prize of 2003 (Cross Keys Press). Some of his translations of poems have been published in Táhirih: A Portrait in Poetry: Selected poems of Qurratu’l-‘Ayn (Kalimát Press 2004). His website is www.anthonyalee.com.  |
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