Star-Grazing. New and Selected Poems

Star-Grazing contains poems of vulnerability and seeking, finding in

the larger mysteries what shapes us all: nature’s light, beholding an

artist’s masterpiece, even what is said in silence. As a pilgrim poet,

Lee’s lifelong search for identity and sense of place is documented in

these pages, his poems drawing on diverse influences: the people he

loves, travel, Japanese aesthetics, Southeast Asian poetic traditions,

contemplative spirituality, and great art.

Throughout this book, Nature serves as mirror and teacher, while

the spiritual is the connective tissue that binds personal experience

to the transcendent. Yet Lee’s poetry is free from didacticism. In his

creative world, paradox is his native language, and he trusts his readers

completely. Star-Grazing is an invitation to slow down, notice, and

recognise ourselves in the spaces between words.

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