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Bei Dao

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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 often embedding bits of bureaucratic speech and unexpected slang, his poetry has been compared to that of Paul Celan and César Vallejo: poets who invented a new poetry and a new language in the attempt to speak of the enormity of their times. The sixth book of Bei Dao's work published by New Directions, UNLOCK has been translated by Eliot Weinerger, the distinguished essayist and critically acclaimed translator of Octavio Paz and Jorge Luis Borges, in collaboration with the historian Iona Man-Cheong and the poet himself.

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Other editions: Softcover - 2010, Softcover - 2005, Softcover - 2001, Softcover - 2000, Softcover - 1996, Hardcover - 1994, Softcover - 1991, Hardcover - 1991, Softcover - 1990, Hardcover - 1990