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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]).

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"Bei Dao uses words as if he were fighting for his life with them.... [He] has found a way to speak to all of us." -- Jonathan Spence - The New York Times Book Review
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"His poems are intense, elegant and impressionistic." -- Dwight Garner - The New York Times Arts Beat

The Rose of Time New and Selected Poems New

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      Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 12/02/2010
      ISBN13: 9780811218481, 978-0811218481
      ISBN10: 0811218481

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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]).

      Trade Review
      "Bei Dao uses words as if he were fighting for his life with them.... [He] has found a way to speak to all of us." -- Jonathan Spence - The New York Times Book Review
      "Bei Dao’s writing provides ample evidence of the written word’s potential to effect political change." -- Andrew Ervin - The Philadelphia Inquirer
      "His poems are intense, elegant and impressionistic." -- Dwight Garner - The New York Times Arts Beat

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