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

Beidao, 1949-; Hinton, David, 1954-

Dao, Bei, Hinton, David

Beidao, Bei Dao

New Directions Publishing Corporation

New York: New Directions

New Directions Book

A New Directions paperbook, 1. publ, New York, 2001

United States, United States of America

Bilingual edition, September 2001

Bilingual, PS, 2001

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 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.

xii, 196 p. ; 20 cm
Includes index

2023-06-28