At the Sky's Edge: Poems 1991-1996 [Paperback]

Bei Dao (Author), David Hinton (Translator), Michael Palmer (Foreword)

Book Description

Series: New Directions Paperbook | Publication Date: September 2001

At the Sky's Edge combines in a single bilingual paperback volume two essential works by one of the world's finest contemporary poets. In his first retrospective volume of poetry in English, two of Bei Dao's previous books—Forms of Distance (1994) and Landscape Over Zero (1996)—are gathered together in one bilingual paperback 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 US. 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 paperback 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.

Editorial Reviews

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Absent
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Afternoon Notes
Allegiance
Andante
Another
Apple And Brute Stone
Arrival
As Far As I Know
Asking The Sky
Asymmetry
At The Sky's Edge
Autumn World In Turmoil
Awakening
Background
Beyond
Blue Wall
Borders
Borrowing A Direction
Brass Of A Summer's Day
Bridge
Bright Mirror
Corridor
Creation
A Day In The Mountains
Deny
Eastern Traveler
Empty City
Encounter
Exit
Farewell Words
February
Flash
Folding Procedure
For T. Transtromer
For The Purpose Of
Forlorn
A Guide To Summer
Headlong Night
Insomnia
Journey
Keyword
Lament
Landscape
Landscape Over Zero
The Long View
Midnight Singer
Morning
Musical Variations
A New Century
New Year
The Next Tree
Night
Night Patrol
Nightwatch
Novice
Old Places
On Eternity
On The Wrong Road
Other Than Tomorrow
Outsider
Pastoral
Perfect
Playwright
A Portrait
Progress
Purple
Realm
Records
Rest
Seeing Double
Showing Up
Sower
A State Of War
Story
Theme
This Day
Toxin
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Wax
We
Winter Travels
Work
Year's End
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

The poems [in Forms of Distance] are distinctly alive. ... In any language, this is poetry of a high order. -- Nate Johnson, Chicago Tribune

About the Author

Bei Dao's most recent books are Unlock (New Directions), and a collection of essays, Blue House (Zephyr Press).

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation; Bilingual edition (September 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0811214958
• ISBN-13: 978-0811214957
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.2 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #871,130 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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