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Synopsis
`The August Sleepwalker' introduces the remarkable poetry of China's foremost younger poet, Bei Dao, one of the most gifted and controversial writers to emerge from the massive upheavals of modern China. His poetry reflects - and criticises - the conflicts of the `cultural revolution' of the late sixties and early seventies. His disillusion with the destructiveness of those times has made him an outsider, one of a group of underground poets who created an alternative literature to challenge the orthodoxies of the entire post-1949 period. Such poetry cannot avoid being engaged, if only by the absence of engagement where it is expected; like the other so-called `obscure' poets, he is experimental, subjective, apolitical and remains uncompromising in his allegiance to the imaginative values which his poetry advances and demonstrates.
Bonnie S. McDougall presents Bei Dao's collected poems in faithful, vivid translations, prefaced with an account of his work which both sets it in its Chinese context and examines its wider interest and appeal.
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About the Author
Bei Dao, born in Beijing in 1949, has traveled and lectured around the world. He has received numerous international awards for his poetry, and is an honorary member of The American Academy of Arts and Letters. Bei Dao, now a U.S. citizen, is currently Professor of Humanities in the Center for East Asian Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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- PublisherAnvil Press Poetry
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 0856462098
- ISBN 13 9780856462092
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages144
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