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The City in Which I Love You

by Li-Young Lee · 1990

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Contents

I.

Furious Versionis

II.

The Interrogation

This Hour And What Is Dead

Arise, Go Down

My Father, In Heaven, Is Reading Out Loud

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For A New Citizen Of These United States

With Ruins

III.

This Room And Everything In It

The City In Which I Love You

IV.

The Waiting

A Story

Goodnight

You Must Sing

Here I Am

A Final Thing

V.

The Cleaving

Subject
politicspoliticsMore like thisLess of this
Genre
literary fictionliterary fictionMore like thisLess of thisromanceromanceMore like thisLess of this
Themes
diversitydiversityMore like thisLess of this
Setting
1990s1990sMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
short · 89 pages
Form
poetrypoetryMore like thisLess of this

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