Unlock: Poems by Bei Dao - Softcover

Dao, Bei

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0856463361 ISBN 13: 9780856463365

Publisher: Anvil Press Poetry, 2006

Synopsis

The sixth collection by China's foremost contemporary poet, Bei Dao, was greeted as perhaps his finest on its publication in America. The 49 poems were written in the USA, and have been translated into English by Eliot Weinberger (the distinguished essayist and translator of Octavio Paz and Jorge Luis Borges) in collaboration with the historian Iona Man-Cheong and with Bei Dao himself. Saturated with startling, surreal imagery and oblique political references, this book shows the restless development in style which is the hallmark of the authentically innovative poet.

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Review

`To categorize Bei Dao as merely an exile or dissident is to miss the point. Bei Dao is simply a poet. There's no greater threat to totalitarianism than individuality, and few living writers possess a voice as elegant as that heard in Unlock'Andrew Ervin, Philadelphia Inquirer

About the Author

Bei Dao (the pseudonym means `north island') was born in Beijing in 1949. Educated into the beliefs of Communist China, his subsequent disaffection found its voice in poetry, for which he has been nominated for the Nobel Prize on several occasions. He now lives and teaches in the USA.

About this edition

• Publisher: Anvil Press Poetry
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0856463361
• ISBN 13: 9780856463365
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128