Daniel W.K. Lee's first collection of poetry is a study on desire's limbs, its breath, its unchecked tendencies on creatures--mortal and divine--who dare to love or be loved. to , melancholia to , he finds fruit in these conditions and exposes with carefully selected words and deliberate silence, our hunger. DANIEL W.K. LEE is a third generation refugee. Born in Kuching, Malaysia to an ethnic Cantonese family who fled wars in China and then Vietnam, he is currently working on escaping to his next city--New Orleans--with his head-turning whippet, Camden.