Böcker av Bei Dao

Sidetracks, Bei DaoâEUR(TM)s first new collection in almost fifteen years, is also the poetâEUR(TM)s first long poem and his magnum opusâEUR"the artistic culmination of a lifetime devoted to the renewal and reinvention of language.

in the mirror there is always this momentthis moment leads to the door of rebirththe door opens to the seathe rose of time             -Bei DaoThe Rose of Time: New & Selected Poems presents a glowing selection of poetry by contemporary China's most celebrated poet, Bei Dao. From his earliest work, Bei Dao developed a wholly original poetic language composed of mysterious and arresting images tuned to a distinctive musical key. This collection spans Bei Dao's entire writing life, from his first book to appear in English, The August Sleepwalker, published a year after the Tiananmen tragedy, to the increasingly interior and complex poems of Landscape Over Zero and Unlock, to new never-before-published work. This bilingual edition also includes a prefatory note by the poet, and a brief afterword by the editor Eliot Weinberger. A must-read book from a seminal poet who has been translated into over thirty languages.

A second bilingual collection since the author's enforced exile from China in 1989.