Bei Dao

Forms of Distance

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An exile in the West since the events of Tiananmen Square, Bei Dao is widely considered China's most distinguished poet. In this new collection, he goes beyond the poetry of exile and reaches a new level of maturity and synthesis in a series of kaleidoscopic images of the end of the twentieth century. These poems, a conflation of history and personal happenstance, are explorations of individual, emotional, physical, and cultural distance that speak to an international readership in an ever more divided world. Bei Dao's poems are translated with new sharpness and intensity by David Hinton, highly regarded for his versions of the Chinese classi… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Hinton, David (Übers.)

ISBN: 978-0-8112-1266-3
EAN: 9780811212663
Produktnummer: 9188404
Verlag: New Directions
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 1994
Seitenangabe: 86 S.
Masse: H21.1 cm x B14.4 cm x D1.5 cm 218 g
Auflage: New
Gewicht: 218

Über den Autor

Bei Dao, born in Beijing in 1949, has traveled and lectured around the world. He has received numerous international awards for his poetry, and is an honorary member of The American Academy of Arts and Letters. Bei Dao, now a U.S. citizen, is currently Professor of Humanities in the Center for East Asian Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.