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— Yusef Komunyakaa
"Seldom are we blessed with a first book as poignant and absorbing as this one is, as street-pure, as wise."
— Carolyn Forché
"Sometimes profane, sometimes profound, these poems provoke and enchant, always inhabited by a sense of Lee's revealing presence."
— Virginia Quarterly Review
Priscilla Lee is the author of Wishbone and Chiu's House of Lovely Animals. Her awards include a Poetry Book Award from The Association for Asian American Studies, an Emily Chamberlain Cook Poetry Prize from UC Berkeley, a Greg Grummer Literary Award from Phoebe, and the San Francisco Foundation's James D. Phelan Literary Award.
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Her poems have appeared in Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, ZYZZYVA, and anthologies such as Yellow as Turmeric, Fragrant as Cloves, Proposing on the Brooklyn Bridge, and The Place That Inhabits Us: Poems of the San Francisco Bay Watershed. She lives in San Francisco.
