this moment leads to the door of rebirt the door opens to the se the rose of tim --Bei Da The Rose of Time: New & Selected Poems presents a glowing selection of poetry by contemporary China's most celebrated poet, Bei Dao.
From his earliest work, Bei Dao developed a wholly original poetic language composed of mysterious and arresting images tuned to a distinctive musical key.
This collection spans Bei Dao's entire writing life, from his first book to appear in English, The August Sleepwalker, published a year after the Tiananmen tragedy, to the increasingly interior and complex poems of Landscape Over Zero and Unlock, to new never-before-published work.
This bilingual edition also includes a prefatory note by the poet, and a brief afterword by the editor Eliot Weinberger.
A must-read book from a seminal poet who has been translated into over thirty languages.
New Directions Publishing Corporation The rose of time: new & selected poems, paperback/bei dao
