Forms of Distance: Poems By Bei Dao

Dao, Bei (Author); Hinton, David (Translator)

ISBN 10: 0811212661 / ISBN 13: 9780811212663

Verlag: New Directions Publishing Corporation, New York, 1994

Beschreibung

Mandarin Chinese and English language hardcover signed by the author, with unclipped dust jacket, in very good condition. Jacket is lightly sunned, edges are a little creased, and board spine ends are slightly bumped. Binding is sound and pages are clear. LW.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 545900

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Forms of Distance: Poems By Bei Dao
• Verlag: New Directions Publishing Corporation, New York
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1994
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0811212661
• ISBN-13: 9780811212663
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: Very Good
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good
• Signiert: Signed by Author
• Buchtyp: Used
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • Poetry

Über diesen Titel

Inhaltsangabe

A distinguished Chinese poet in Western exile since the events of Tiananmen Square moves beyond his previous works, which focus on the exile, to reflect upon personal and world history, emotion, individuality, and conflict.

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Bei Dao, (the pen name of Zhao Zhenkai) was born in Beijing in 1949. During the Cultural Revolution, he worked as a concrete mixer and blacksmith for eleven years. Forced into exile after the Tiananmen Massacre, he lived in Europe and the US until 2007, then settling in Hong Kong until, only recently, moving back to Beijing. He has been hailed as "the soul of post-Mao poetry" (Yunte Huang) and praised for his "intense lyricism" (Pankaj Mishra). Bei Dao has received numerous awards for his poetry all over the world, and founded the International Poetry Nights in Hong Kong. His photography and paintings have been exhibited in China, Hong Kong, and Japan. New Directions publishes ten of his books.

DAVID HINTON's original Selected Poems of Tu Fu was the first full-length verse translation of Tu Fu published in America. The author also of singular books of essays and poetry, Hinton has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, numerous N.E.A. and N.E.H fellowships, both major awards given for poetry translation in the United States, and a lifetime achievement award by The American Academy of Arts and Letters.