Real Karaoke People (Many Voices Project)
"Lee’s riffing mastery of form and imagery is nothing short of breath-taking--he weaves together hip-hop, prose poem...prayer, lyricism" --Minnesota Literature, October 2005"This is poetry at its richest…perceptive and haunting, [Lee’s] stories are heartfelt [and] make your soul sing…" --ImaginAsian TV – iaLink (New York)"[A] beautifully complex, contradictory, and insistently compelling world...this is a book that opens up new possibilities for American poetry." --Jim Moore, author of Lightning at Dinner"[Lee's] voice contains outrage...tenderness...searing honesty...vital to the American landscape. The vitality of the country…is nowhere clearer" --San Francisco Chronicle, December 4, 2005"[Lee] shines a spotlight on…immigrants…adolescents, an ex-porn star--outcasts, dreamers, pretenders…longing to take on a new identity" --St. Paul Pioneer Press, October 13, 2005"A potent voice...Lee['s]...galloping imagination...describes what it's like to be part of a global generation. His experiments...are bold and unself-conscious..." --Minneapolis Star Tribune, March 31, 2006"Lee's riffing mastery of form and imagery is nothing short of breath-taking--he weaves together hip-hop, prose poem...prayer, lyricism" --Minnesota Literature, October 2005"Prose and poems of our global and transitory America." --Providence Journal (Reviewers' List: TOP FIVE BOOKS OF 2005), January 1, 2006"[Lee's] debut volume...is not unlike walking into a strange new neighborhood...Lyric...wry...these [poems] make a strong impression then reward with rereading..." --Salt Lake City Weekly, John Freeman, President of the National Book Critics Circle, April 6, 2006"[Lee's] voice contains outrage...tenderness...searing honesty...vital to the American landscape. The vitality of the country...is nowhere clearer..." --San Francisco Chronicle, December 4, 2005