Andrew David King is a student at UC Berkeley, where he is the recipient of the Joan Lee Yang Memorial Prize in Poetry and the F.C.S. Schiller Prize in Philosophy. He's been published in college textbooks and the San Francisco Chronicle, but no word back yet from The New York Times. Andrew writes poetry while he waits by the mailbox, but never sends it to anybody. He invites you to contact him at [email protected].
Inside a used bookstore at a grotesquely outsized strip mall in Fremont, California, I first pulled Li-Young Lee’s 1986 chapbook Rose from the shelf, a volume so thin the spine…