Forms of Distance
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| Rating | : | 4.22 (553 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0811212661 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 86 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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This bilingual collection is also a protest, though not in any overt sense. . Exile permits speech. From Publishers Weekly Bei Dao ( Old Snow ), a prominent poet and Chinese dissident, has been living in exile since the Tiananmen protest. There is perhaps a veiled warning in the poems not simply to lionize the poet for political courage, but to appreciate him as someone who, regardless of time and place, can imagine the world. The images here are usually oblique, mysterious and resonant. Rather, its expo
An exile in the West since the events of Tiananmen Square, Bei Dao is widely considered China's most distinguished poet. But his are decidedly modern clarities, adrift on the terrible mystery of today's world-historical forces.". 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 Chi
Rebecca Anne Banks said Forms of Distance, the Zen and Shadows of the Poetry of Bei Dao.. Byline: Reprint from Subterranean Blue PoetryTitle of Book: Forms of DistanceAuthor: Bei DaoPublisher: New Directions BooksDate of Publication: 199Forms of Distance, the Zen and Shadows of the Poetry of Bei Dao. Rebecca Anne Banks Byline: Reprint from Subterranean Blue PoetryTitle of Book: Forms of DistanceAuthor: Bei DaoPublisher: New Directions BooksDate of Publication: 1994Page Count: 87“Cold as the northern winds,In December mornings “- from Exile by EnyaThe voice of a new generation calling out for freedom, Forms of Distance by Bei Dao, a book of poems published in 1994, is a reflection of his life in China and his exile after the. Page Count: 87“Cold as the northern winds,In December mornings “- from Exile by EnyaThe voice of a new generation calling out for freedom, Forms of Distance by Bei Dao, a book of poems published in 199Forms of Distance, the Zen and Shadows of the Poetry of Bei Dao. Rebecca Anne Banks Byline: Reprint from Subterranean Blue PoetryTitle of Book: Forms of DistanceAuthor: Bei DaoPublisher: New Directions BooksDate of Publication: 1994Page Count: 87“Cold as the northern winds,In December mornings “- from Exile by EnyaThe voice of a new generation calling out for freedom, Forms of Distance by Bei Dao, a book of poems published in 1994, is a reflection of his life in China and his exile after the. , is a reflection of his life in China and his exile after the