Parallel text in Chinese and English. - Originally published: New York, N.Y. : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2000
Angaben zum Inhalt: Bei Dao, the internationally acclaimed Chinese poet, has been the poetic conscience of the dissident movements in his country for over twenty years. He has been in exile since the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989. Unlock presents forty-nine new poems written in the United States, and may well be Bei Dao's most powerful work to date. Complex, full of startling and sometimes surreal imagery, sudden transitions, and oblique political references, and often embedding bits of bureaucratic speech and unexpected slang, his poetry has been compared to that of Paul Celan and Cesar Vallejo: poets who invented a new poetry and a new language in the attempt to speak of the enormity of their times.
Inhalt: June -- Reading -- Requiem -- Untitled (Rubbing This Bruise...) -- Mistake -- Time and the Road -- Delivering Newspapers -- Balcony -- The Old Castle -- Untitled (A Trumpet...) -- Post -- Postwar -- Smells -- Driving -- Untitled (The Landscape...) -- No -- Moon Festival -- Night Sky -- Untitled (Soaked by a Fog...) -- Leaving Home -- Spirit Game -- Crying -- Night Tree -- Teacher's Manual -- Etude -- Deleting -- Writing a Letter -- Untitled (Two-Dimensional...) -- In Memory -- Transparency -- Substitute-Teaching -- Morning Song -- Destination -- Deformation -- Spending the Night -- Going Home -- Call -- A Moment Against the Light -- The Hunt -- Poppy Night -- Montage -- Mission -- Swivel Chair -- Unlock -- Silence and Trembling -- Dry Season -- Fifth Street -- Moat -- Soap -- A Note on the Translation -- About the Translators
Parallel text in Chinese and English. - Originally published: New York, N.Y. : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2000
Angaben zum Inhalt: Bei Dao, the internationally acclaimed Chinese poet, has been the poetic conscience of the dissident movements in his country for over twenty years. He has been in exile since the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989. Unlock presents forty-nine new poems written in the United States, and may well be Bei Dao's most powerful work to date. Complex, full of startling and sometimes surreal imagery, sudden transitions, and oblique political references, and often embedding bits of bureaucratic speech and unexpected slang, his poetry has been compared to that of Paul Celan and Cesar Vallejo: poets who invented a new poetry and a new language in the attempt to speak of the enormity of their times
Inhalt: June -- Reading -- Requiem -- Untitled (Rubbing This Bruise...) -- Mistake -- Time and the Road -- Delivering Newspapers -- Balcony -- The Old Castle -- Untitled (A Trumpet...) -- Post -- Postwar -- Smells -- Driving -- Untitled (The Landscape...) -- No -- Moon Festival -- Night Sky -- Untitled (Soaked by a Fog...) -- Leaving Home -- Spirit Game -- Crying -- Night Tree -- Teacher's Manual -- Etude -- Deleting -- Writing a Letter -- Untitled (Two-Dimensional...) -- In Memory -- Transparency -- Substitute-Teaching -- Morning Song -- Destination -- Deformation -- Spending the Night -- Going Home -- Call -- A Moment Against the Light -- The Hunt -- Poppy Night -- Montage -- Mission -- Swivel Chair -- Unlock -- Silence and Trembling -- Dry Season -- Fifth Street -- Moat -- Soap -- A Note on the Translation -- About the Translators
