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At the Sky's Edge: Poems 1991-1996

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In his first retrospective volume of poetry in English, two of Bei Dao's previous books -- Forms of Distance and Landscape Over Zero -- are gathered together in one bilingual paperbook edition. At The Sky's Edge: Poems 1991-1996 marks a pivotal point in the poet's oeuvre, presenting the increasingly lyrical, meditative poems written in the years following his banishment from China in 1989.Translated into twenty-five languages, Bei Dao's work has long been appreciated internationally, but is just recently gaining a larger audience in the U.S. At The Sky's Edge becomes Bei Dao's seventh book published by New Directions and is the first time Forms of Distance appears in a paperbook edition. The translations of David Hinton, who was awarded the prestigious Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from The Academy of American Poets in 1997, capture both the musicality and density of the original Chinese. Quiet, spare, these are poems of paradox and possibility, of words carefully balanced, of a world on edge.

Pages: 196

Format: Paperback

Publisher: New Directions

Release: September 17, 2001

ISBN: 0811214958

ISBN 13: 9780811214957

At the Sky's Edge: Poems 1991-1996

4.2/5 ( ratings)

In his first retrospective volume of poetry in English, two of Bei Dao's previous books -- Forms of Distance and Landscape Over Zero -- are gathered together in one bilingual paperbook edition. At The Sky's Edge: Poems 1991-1996 marks a pivotal point in the poet's oeuvre, presenting the increasingly lyrical, meditative poems written in the years following his banishment from China in 1989.Translated into twenty-five languages, Bei Dao's work has long been appreciated internationally, but is just recently gaining a larger audience in the U.S. At The Sky's Edge becomes Bei Dao's seventh book published by New Directions and is the first time Forms of Distance appears in a paperbook edition. The translations of David Hinton, who was awarded the prestigious Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from The Academy of American Poets in 1997, capture both the musicality and density of the original Chinese. Quiet, spare, these are poems of paradox and possibility, of words carefully balanced, of a world on edge.

Pages: 196

Format: Paperback

Publisher: New Directions

Release: September 17, 2001

ISBN: 0811214958

ISBN 13: 9780811214957

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