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Unlock: Poems

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Author: Dao, Bei
Translator: Man-Cheong, Iona
Weinberger, Eliot
ISBN:978-0-8112-1447-6
Publication Date:Sep 2000
Publisher:New Directions Publishing Corporation
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $13.95
Book Description:

New poetry by the internationally acclaimed Chinese poet-in-exile. Bei Dao, the internationally acclaimed Chinese poet, has been the poetic conscience of the dissident movements in his country for over twenty years. He has been in exile since the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989. Unlock presents forty-nine new poems written in the United States, and may well be Bei Dao's most powerful work to date. Complex, full of startling and sometimes surreal imagery, sudden transitions,...
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Book Details
Pages:112
Detailed Subjects: Poetry / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.2 x 8 x 0.4 Inches
Book Weight:0.308 Pounds
Author Biography
Dao, Bei (Author)
Eliot Weinberger was born on February 6, 1949. He is a writer, editor and translator. His work has been published in 30 languages. He first gained recognition from his translations of Nobel Prize winner and poet Octavio Paz. These translations include Collected Poems 1957-1987 and In Light of India. He has also translated other writers such as Vicente Huidobro's Altazor. He received the National Board Critic's Circle Award for his edition of Borge's Selected Non-Fictions. Today Eliot Weinberger is mostly known for his essays and political articles focusing on U.S. politics and foreign policy. His literary writings include An Elemental Thing, which was selected by The Village Voice as one of the "20 Best Books of the Year for 2009. He is also the co-author of a study of Chinese poetry translations, 19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei. In 2000 he was the only American literary writer to be awarded the order of the Aztec Eagle by the government of Mexico.

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