Press
KoreAm
Magazine Article
“Poetry in it All: Lee Herrick on Poetry, Travel, and Life as a Korean American Adoptee Poet,” KoreAm, April 2008. Article by Angela Hur, Photograph by Eric Sueyoshi.
Boxcar Poetry Review
Book Review
“Although ‘make it something beautiful’ is quite different than ‘make it new,’ Herrick manages to create new songs—beautiful songs—from the wreckage of life’s purifying, terrifying, and cleansing waters of experience.”
—-C St Perez reviews This Many Miles from Desire
Boxcar Poetry Review
First Book Poets in Conversation: Ivy Alvarez and Lee Herrick, Part II
March 2008
Interview with Asian American Press
“An interview with Lee Herrick,” Asian American Press
March 2008
Boxcar Poetry Review
First Book Poets in Conversation: Ivy Alvarez and Lee Herrick, Part I
“To try to put it succinctly, the title relates to my translation of the American Transcendentalists’ (Thoreau, Emerson, etc.) notion of transcending desire. I am currently trying to work this idea, almost trying to remove the idea of “want” from my life (or at least my writing), into my next series of poems.”
—- Lee Herrick
MiPOesias
“The Indefatigable Hope for Place,” Book Review
“There are books that matter and books people will
forget not long after they put them down. Lee Herrick’s
This Many Miles From Desire is a book that matters. A
weighty collection, a worthy compilation fitting for the
best of recognitions. Endearing. Thoughtful. Insightful.
Breathtaking.”
—-Michael Parker reviews This Many Miles from Desire
December 2007, MiPOesias
Poetry Foundation Blog
“Wednesday Shout-Out,” by Rigoberto Gonzalez, October 17, 2007.
“From the series of ‘Korean Adoptee’ poems (in conversation with the poet’s personal identity), to the more abstract concepts of the titles ‘Gravity’ and ‘Salvation,’ to the navigation through historically complex spaces like Fresno, California (Herrick’s and [Andres] Montoya’s hometown), Oaxaca City and Guatemala, this poet is in constant search for solace and sanctity. And he finds them in the ubiquitous imagery that makes any place feel like home.”
Stanislaus Connections
“Lee Herrick: A Global Voice,” by Tina Arnopole Driskill. October 2007.
“Lee Herrick is a poet, a teacher, an editor…a child of the world.”
A Review of the Starbucks Reading in Clovis, California
From a reviewer at Shvoong, from December 2007.
The Rampage
“Herrick pens ‘This Many Miles from Desire’,” September 26, 2007, by Joseph Boone.
“Professor Lee Herrick celebrated his new book, This Many Miles from Desire, with a spirited poetry reading. Fitting, for the book is a brilliant collection of poems emphasizing the beauty of life, yet addressing the inner-struggle to find ones place in the world.”
The Fresno Bee
“Poet fosters expression at City College,” September 22, 2007 by Doug Hoagland, reporter.
“There’s something almost spiritual about producing a poem, Herrick said: ‘I’ve begun to think the poems call me out, as opposed to me being in charge of the words’.”
Read the article here, via the Adoptee Nation blog
Fresno Famous
The Do-It-Yourself Journal, Interview by Jefferson Beavers
Fresno Famous, December 23, 2005
“I like when a poem combines beauty and grit in a lyric.”
