Confucius, Kerouac, and my Old Man

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During a difficult year after the death of his father, author Anthony Lee turned to Eastern philosophy to try to rediscover order. That pursuit, and brief notes for a poem left behind in his father’s apartment, led him through a study of memory and identity that forced him to consider the very meaning of art in one’s life and in the world. In his performative talk, Lee continues his investigation of the abiding influence of Asian continental thought on American arts and letters.