Details

Subject(s)

• Beidao 1949-—Translations into English [Browse]

Translator

Hinton, David, 1954- [Browse]

Publisher

• Laughlin, James, 1914-1997 [Browse]
• New Directions Publishing [Browse]

Cover designer

Strobach, Hermann (Designer) [Browse]

Bookjacket designer

Strobach, Hermann (Designer) [Browse]

Artist

Shao, Fei, 1954- [Browse]

Translater

Hinton, David, 1954- [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Dust jackets (Binding)—New York (State)—New York—20th century [Browse]

Summary note

A bilingual collection of poems by a Chinese dissident. "The world's agents of freedom / entered me into their computer / an alien voice sneaking into the dictionary / a dissident / perhaps a form of distance from the world." By the author of Old Snow.

Notes

• "A New Directions book" -- title page.
• "New Directions Books are published for James Laughlin by New Directions Publishing Corporation" -- title page verso.
• acquired from Leila and Daniel Javitch, 2021.

Binding note

Copy in Berg Coll 22-570 bound in publishers' burgundy cloth; with original dust jacket designed by Hermann Strohbach featuring a painting by Shao Fei.

Language note

English and Chinese on opposite pages.

Contents

• Year's End
• Absent
• Brass of a Summer's Day
• Midnight Singer
• Advertising
• Autumn World in Turmoil
• Beyond
• For T. Transtromer
• 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
• Coming to My Senses
• Sower
• Farewell Words
• Landscape
• A New Century
• Asking the Sky
• Headlong Night
• Allegiance
• Andante
• Folding Procedure
• Contact
• Flash
• A Guide to Summer
• Musical Variations
• A Portrait
• Pastoral
• On Eternity.

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References

Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin, page 139

ISBN

• 0811212661
• 9780811212663

LCCN

94008409

OCLC

29952554

RCP

N - O

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