New York. 1991. New Directions. 1st American Edition. Very Good in

New York. 1991. New Directions. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0811211827. Translated from the Chinese by Bonnie S. McDougall & Chen Maiping. Bilingual. 81 pages. hardcover. Jacket art by Shao Fei. Jacket design by Ellen C. Dawson. keywords: Poetry China Translated Literature. FROM THE PUBLISHER-On August 2, 1949 Zhao Zhenkai was born in Beijing. His pseudonym Bei Dao literally means 'North Island, ' and was suggested by a friend as a reference to the poet's provenance from Northern China as well as his typical solitude. Dao was one of the foremost poets of the Misty School, and his early poems were a source of inspiration during the April Fifth Democracy Movement of 1976, a peaceful demonstration in Tiananmen Square. He has been in exile from his native China since the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989. His books of poetry include The Rose of Time: New and Selected Poems(New Directions, 2010); Unlock (2000); At the Sky's Edge: Poems 1991-1996 (1996), for which David Hinton won the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from The Academy of American Poets; Landscape Over Zero (1995); Forms of Distance (1994); Old Snow (1991); and The August Sleepwalker (1990). His work has been translated into over 25 languages. He is also the author of short stories and essays. In 1978, he and colleague Mang Ke founded the underground literary magazine Jintian (Today), which ceased publication under police order. In 1990, the magazine was revived and Bei Dao serves as the Editor-in-Chief. In his foreword to At the Sky's Edge, Bei Dao was a Stanford Presidential lecturer and has taught at the University of California at Davis, the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, and Beloit College in Wisconsin. In 2006, Bei Dao was allowed to move back to China. inventory #7917.