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Bei Dao
ISBN 13: 9780811214476
Publisher: New Directions
Publication Date: 2000
Binding: Softcover
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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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"Bei Dao presents mindscapes that feature jarring juxtapositions and stunning shifts in perspective...Though I can't read Chinese to comment on their fidelity, the translations provided by Eliot Weinberger (based on the transliterations of Iona Man-Cheong) are clean, crisp and efficient...UNLOCK is a fine collection of 49 recent poems by one of China's prominent contemporaries. Though he provides no maritime chart for navigating his deep waters, Bei Dao rewards the reader who takes the time to find his or her own way."
David G. Lanoue, Exquisite Corpse
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