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Loading... Unlock (edition 2000)by Bei Dao, Eliot Weinberger (Translator), Iona Man-Cheong (Translator)Bei Dao is a giant in contemporary Chinese poetry and his works were inspirational for the Democracy Movement; I love several of his poems that appear in “A Splintered Mirror” which I would recommend (e.g. “Answer, “Notes on the City of the Sun”, “Transparent Grief”), but unfortunately I did not like this collection as much. The subjects are less interesting and it seems to me he was trying too hard. I suppose my favorite here is “The Old Castle”, which ends: “hearing the sighs of tomorrow the main gate clangs shut art is dead roses bloom” |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)895.1152Literature Literature of other languages Asian (east and south east) languages Chinese Chinese poetry Modern period 1912–2010 1949–2010LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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“hearing the sighs of tomorrow
the main gate clangs shut
art is dead
roses bloom” ( )