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Bei Dao
A lyrical masterpiece by the renowned poet with a "Whitman-like rhetorical immensity coupled with a passionately eccentric sensibility" (Carol Muske Dukes, Los Angeles Times)
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Sidetracks, Bei Dao's first new collection in almost fifteen years, is also the poet's first long poem and his magnum opus-the artistic culmination of a lifetime devoted to the renewal…
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A second bilingual collection since the author’s enforced exile from China in 1989.
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Features poems that contemplate the fractured landscapes amongst which the poet has lived since his enforced exile from China in 1989.
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In Waves, the poet Bei Dao turns to fiction, recording the painful years of the Cultural Revolution and its aftermath. Avoiding polemics, his attention is on individuals swept up in…
Among the most gifted and controversial writers to emerge from the massive upheavals in modern China, Bei Dao both reflects and criticizes the conflicts of the Cultural Revolution of the…
An intimate look into the poetic mind of one of world poetry’s most respected names.
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A selection from the lifework of the internationally renowned poet Bei Dao, who is like reading Chekhov or Turgenev reflected in a porcelain bowl (The Times [London]).
A magical, impressionistic autobiography by China’s legendary poet Bei Dao
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Bei Dao’s All, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions…
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A Study Guide for Bei Dao’s The Homecoming Stranger, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions…
Section of poems by Bei Dao translated by National Book Award winning translator Clayton Eshleman with Lucas Klein. Bei Dao, one of China’s foremost modern poets, has been translated into…
Bei Dao,David Hinton
At the Sky’s Edge combines in a single bilingual paperback volume two essential works by one of the world’s finest contemporary poets. In his first retrospective volume of poetry in…
Bei Dao,Matthew Fryslie
Contains twenty pieces that form a poet’s travelogue A- since his exile from China in 1989. This title includes tales and descriptions of cities such as Copenhagen, Durham, Johannesburg, New…
A collection of ninety-one short-shorts, a form of short-storytelling. Presenting diverse voices and perspectives by writers, the stories are culled from newspapers, magazines, literary journals, and personal collections.
Howard Goldblatt
A collection of ninety-one short-shorts, which range from the mundane to the sublime and illuminate various things from humanist ideals to traditional virtues to the material benefits of a commercialized…
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Bei Dao,Bonnie S. McDougall
Bei Dao has been in exile since the Tienanmen Square massacre of 1989. This is a collection of 49 new poems, which has been compared to the work of Paul…
An anthology of the poems written by fourteen poets hailing from Albania, Egypt, Germany, Japan, Mexico, the United States, and the Great China regions of Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong…
Following the convening of Hong Kong International Poetry Nights 2011, The World of Words is a collection of selected works by some of the most internationally acclaimed poets today. Included…
Edited by Gilbert Fong, Shelby Chan, Lucas Klein, and Bei Dao, The World of Words set is an extended edition of the single-volume The World of Words. It comprises twenty…
Following the convening of International Poetry Nights in Hong Kong 2013, Islands or Continents is a collection of selected works by some of the most internationally acclaimed poets today. The…
This is an extended edition of the single-volume Islands or Continents. It comprises eighteen pocket off-prints encased in a fine paper box, each containing more selected works by one of…
Following the enormous success of the 2009, 2011 and 2013 occasions of the International Poetry Nights in Hong Kong, the International Poetry Nights in Hong Kong 2015 (IPNH K2015) will…
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