An edition of Forms of distance (1994)

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An edition of Forms of distance (1994)

Forms of distance

An exile in the West since the events of Tiananmen Square, Bei Dao is widely considered China's most distinguished poet. In this new collection, he goes beyond the poetry of exile and reaches a new level of maturity and synthesis in a series of kaleidoscopic images of the end of the twentieth century.

These poems, a conflation of history and personal happenstance, are explorations of individual, emotional, physical, and cultural distance that speak to an international readership in an ever more divided world.

Bei Dao's poems are translated with new sharpness and intensity by David Hinton, highly regarded for his versions of the Chinese classics (The Selected Poems of Tu Fu, The Selected Poems of Tao Ch'ien), who comments in his Translator's Note: "Bei Dao's work recalls China's ancient masters: clear resonant images set in sharp juxtapositions. But his are decidedly modern clarities, adrift on the terrible mystery of today's world-historical forces."

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Language
English
Pages
86

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Forms of distance
1994, New Directions Books
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Edition Notes

English and Chinese on opposite pages.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
895.1/152
Library of Congress
PL2892.E525 A23 1993, PL2892.E525A23 1993, PL2892.E525 A23 1994

The Physical Object

Pagination
viii, 86 p. ;
Number of pages
86

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1084589M
ISBN 10
0811212661
LCCN
94008409
OCLC/WorldCat
29952554
Library Thing
6583394
Goodreads
114805

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