| Forms of Distance Contributor(s): Dao, Bei (Author), Hinton, David (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0811212661 ISBN-13: 9780811212663 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Hardcover Published: June 1994 Annotation: 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". |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Asian - General - Poetry | Anthologies (multiple Authors) |
| Dewey: 895.115 |
| LCCN: 94008409 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.66" W x 8.32" (0.48 lbs) 86 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian - Cultural Region - Chinese - Cultural Region - East Asian - Ethnic Orientation - Chinese |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Contributor Bio(s): Dao, Bei: - Bei Dao, born in Beijing in 1949, has traveled and lectured around the world. He has received numerous international awards for his poetry, and is an honorary member of The American Academy of Arts and Letters. Bei Dao, now a U.S. citizen, is currently Professor of Humanities in the Center for East Asian Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.Hinton, David: - DAVID HINTON's original Selected Poems of Tu Fu was the first full-length verse translation of Tu Fu published in America. The author also of singular books of essays and poetry, Hinton has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, numerous N.E.A. and N.E.H fellowships, both major awards given for poetry translation in the United States, and a lifetime achievement award by The American Academy of Arts and Letters. |