Madeleine Lee (b. 1962)

1. BIOGRAPHY

2. CRITICAL INTRODUCTION

3. SELECTED POEMS

• “raintree no. 5”

• “blue”

• “ultraviolet”

• an excerpt from “five spice” and “princess” from flinging the triplets (2015)

• an excerpt from “after the rain”

• an excerpt from “inklings”

4. SELECTED VIDEOS

SELECTED POEMS

ultraviolet

in the harsh african light
raybans cut out ultraviolet
without a and b
residual wave frequencies
turn the world into a shade of yellow amber

without purple
there is
no amethyst no indigo
no echinacae purpurae
no royalty no rainbow
no violet blue tanzanite

by Madeleine Lee
from one point six one eight (2013)

SELECTED POEMS: from flinging the triplets (2015) >