Research Catalog

Title

Unlock : poems / by Bei Dao ; translated by Eliot Weinberger and Iona Man-Cheong.

Author

Beidao, 1949-

Publication

New York : New Directions, 2000.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Man-Cheong, Iona, 1950-
• New Directions Publishing hou
• Weinberger, Eliot.
• Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe

Description

113 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

"Unlock presents forty-nine recent 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 Celand and Cesar Vallejo - poets who invented a new poetry and a new language in the attempt to speak of the enormity of their times."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

New Directions paperbook ; NDP901

Uniform Title

Poems. Selections. English

Alternative Title

Poems.

Subject

Beidao, 1949- > Translations into English

Genre/Form

Translations

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

[characters not reproducible] June -- [characters not reproducible] Reading -- [characters not reproducible] Requiem -- [characters not reproducible] Untitled (Rubbing This Bruise ...) -- [characters not reproducible] Mistake -- [characters not reproducible] Time and the Road -- [characters not reproducible] Delivering Newspapers -- [characters not reproducible] Balcony -- [characters not reproducible] The Old Castle -- [characters not reproducible] Untitled (A Trumpet ...) -- [characters not reproducible] Post -- [characters not reproducible] Postwar -- [characters not reproducible] Smells -- [characters not reproducible] Driving -- [characters not reproducible] Untitled (The Landscape ...) -- [characters not reproducible] No -- [characters not reproducible] Moon Festival -- [characters not reproducible] Night Sky -- [characters not reproducible] Untitled (Soaked by a Fog ...) -- [characters not reproducible] Leaving Home -- [characters not reproducible] Spirit Game -- [characters not reproducible] Crying -- [characters not reproducible] Night Tree -- [characters not reproducible] Teacher's Manual -- [characters not reproducible] Etude -- [characters not reproducible] Deleting -- [characters not reproducible] Writing a Letter -- [characters not reproducible] Untitled (Two-Dimensional ...) -- [characters not reproducible] In Memory -- [characters not reproducible] Transparency -- [characters not reproducible] Substitute-Teaching -- [characters not reproducible] Morning Song -- [characters not reproducible] Destination.

ISBN

0811214478 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^00030571^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library