SOURCE: Knowlton, Edgar C., Jr. Review of The City in Which I Love You, by Li-Young Lee. World Literature Today 65, no. 4 (autumn 1991): 771-72.

In the following review, Knowlton highlights the autobiographical significance of The City in Which I Love You.

The City in Which I Love You is the second book of poems by Li-Young Lee, an American poet of Chinese ancestry born in Indonesia, and is the 1990 Lamont Poetry Selection of the Academy of American Poets. An earlier volume, Rose, published in 1986, earned him New York University's Delmore Schwartz Memorial Poetry Award. The artistic cover, designed by Daphne Poulin, contains a reproduction of a map of Rome from an item in the Musée Condé, Château de Chantilly, and is tastefully placed. The back cover includes a portrait of the author by Paul Elledge.

On the last page of the book appears a biographical sketch of...