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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 and reinvention of language.

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This work is a Poetry Book Society recommended translation. "Forms of Distance" is Bei Dao's second bilingual collection since his enforced exile from China in 1989. Michael Hofmann described the first, "Old Snow", as 'the work of one of the great poets of our time', and John Cayley wrote in the "Times Literary Supplement" that 'in a sense he is the only contemporary Chinese poet who is knowable for the non-specialist...we can hear the maturing poetic voice of a highly talented, individual Chinese writer.'

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1. This is a Nobel caliber author on the verge of winning that exact prize 2. An unadulterated non-Western look at established Western poetic figures 3. Can also be incorporated in the classroom in creative writing, world literature and Asian literature seminars. 4. Author is currently finishing a second book of essays and touring widely 5. Book of the month club possibility author bio continued: Bei Dao is rumored to be on the short list for the Nobel Prize in Literature for the past few years. In exile since the 1989 Tinanmen incedent, he has lectured around the world and currently teaches at the University of California at Davis.

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A powerful memoir from one of China's greatest living poets in exile.

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in the mirror there is always this moment this moment leads to the door of rebirth the door opens to the sea the rose of time —Bei Dao The Rose of Time: New & Selected Poems presents a glowing selection of poetry by contemporary China’s most celebrated poet, Bei Dao. From his earliest work, Bei Dao developed a wholly original poetic language composed of mysterious and arresting images tuned to a distinctive musical key. This collection spans Bei Dao’s entire writing life, from his first book to appear in English, The August Sleepwalker, published a year after the Tiananmen tragedy, to the increasingly interior and complex poems of Landscape Over Zero and Unlock, to new never-before-published work. This bilingual edition also includes a prefatory note by the poet, and a brief afterword by the editor Eliot Weinberger. A must-read book from a seminal poet who has been translated into over thirty languages.

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Twenty essays about Bei Dao's life in exile since Tiananmen Square. "Knowledge of death is the only key that can open midnight's gate."Bei Dao Bei Dao has gained international acclaim over the last decade for his haunting interior poetic landscapes; his poetry is translated and published in some twenty-five languages around the world. Now, in Midnight's Gate, Bei Dao redefines the essay form with the same elliptical precision of his poetry, but with an openness and humor that complements the complexity of his poems. The twenty essays of Midnight's Gate form a travelogue of a poet who has lived in some seven countries since his exile from China in 1989. The work carries us from Palestine to Sacramento. At one point we are led into a basement in Paris for a production of Gorky's Lower Depths, the next moment we are in the mountains of China where Bei Dao worked for eleven years as a concrete mixer and ironworker. The subjective experience deepens and multiplies in these essays, filled with the stories of ordinary Chinese immigrants, as well as those of literary, artistic, and political figures. And it all coheres with a poet's observations, meditations, and memories.

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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 30 languages and several times candidate for the Nobel Prize. Bei Dao is currently Professor of Humanities at the Chinese University in Hong Kong.

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