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Lee was born in Matador, Texas and graduated from Washington and Lee University.
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So Quietly the Earth
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“One can only wish for more poets like David Lee.”—Chowder Review Set in the American Southwest, So Quietly the Earth is a book of landscape meditations on philosophical, theological and environmental issues. Radically departing from his justly famous narratives of rural life, David Lee weaves the archetypal elements of earth, fire, water, and air throughout his poems as he explores spiritual connections to the natural world. David Lee, author of 15 books of poems, was named Utah’s first Poet Laureate and in 2001 was a finalist for the United States Poet Laureate. A former seminary candidate, semi-pro baseball player and hog farmer, he recently retired as the head of the languages and literature department at Southern Utah University.
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David Lee
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He has been acclaimed by the Utah Endowment for the Humanities as one of the twelve greatest writers to ever emerge from the state. A former farmer, he is the subject of the Public Broadcasting Service documentary The Pig Poet. His poems have appeared widely in publications including Poetry, Ploughshares, The Missouri Review, Narrative Magazine, and JuxtaProse Literary Magazine.
He has been cited as an influence on writers such as Lance Larsen and Bonnie Jo Campbell.
He published his first book of poetry, The Porcine Legacy, in 1974. Prior to his writing career he explored careers as a seminary student, pig farmer and boxer.
He was also the last white athlete to play on a Negro League baseball team, and the only one to do so after the dissolution of the Texas Blue Stars. Lee earned his Doctor of Philosophy with a concentration in the poetry of John Milton and taught at Southern Utah University for three decades, where he served as Chairman of the Department of Language and Literature.
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Lee served as Utah"s inaugural poet laureate from 1997-2002 and later received the Utah Governor's Award for lifetime achievement in the arts He is the recipient of the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Award in Poetry and the Western States Book Award in Poetry. In 1999, his collection News From Down to the Café was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. In 2001, he was selected as a finalist for the position of United States Poet Laureate. His book So Quietly the Earth was among the 25 books chosen for the New York Public Library"s 2004 "Books to Remember" list.
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So Quietly the Earth
( “One can only wish for more poets like David Lee.”—Chow...)
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So Quietly the Earth
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