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Truths (Feat. Lee Herrick)

from The Poets Are Gathering by Benjamin Boone

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​​Lee Herrick is the author of three books of poems, Scar and Flower, Gardening Secrets of the Dead, and This Many Miles from Desire. He is co-editor, with Leah Silvieus, of The World I Leave You: Asian American Poets on Faith and Spirit (forthcoming Spring 2020, Orison Books). He served as Fresno Poet Laureate from 2015-2017. His poems appear widely in literary magazines, anthologies, and textbooks including The Bloomsbury Review, Columbia Poetry Review, Berkeley Poetry Review, The Normal School, The Poetry Foundation, ZZYZYVA, Seeds from a Silent Tree: Writing by Korean Adoptees, Highway 99: A Literary Journey Through California's Great Central Valley, 2nd edition, The Place That Inhabits Us: Poems from the San Francisco Bay Watershed, One for the Money: The Sentence as Poetic Form, Indivisible: Poems of Social Justice, and HERE: Poems for the Planet, with a foreword by the Dalai Lama (Copper Canyon, March 2019), among others.​ Herrick is on the advisory board of The Adoption Museum Project and has traveled throughout Latin America and Asia and has given readings throughout the United States. He was born in Daejeon, South Korea, adopted at ten months old, and raised in California. He lives with his daughter and wife in Fresno, California. He teaches at Fresno City College and in the MFA Program at Sierra Nevada College.

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Korean-born poet Lee Herrick, whose “Truths” uses a line from Philip Levine’s “The Simple Truth” as a spur towards a soaring Levine-like reverie on the elemental pleasures of light, taste and life in his city (as with others gathered here, Fresno): “One city in the shape of an immigrant’s beautiful accent… In which of our ninety languages should I say that I love you?”

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from The Poets Are Gathering, released October 16, 2020
Lee Herrick (p/n), Benjamin Boone (ss), Craig VonBerg (pn), Patrick Olvera (b), Nathan Guzman (d), Richard Juarez (perc)

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