At the Sky's Edge combines in a single bilingual paperback volume
two essential works by one of the world's finest contemporary
poets. In his first retrospective volume of poetry in English, two
of Bei Dao's previous booksForms of Distance (1994) and Landscape
Over Zero (1996)are gathered together in one bilingual paperback
edition. At The Sky's Edge: Poems 1991-1996 marks a pivotal point
in the poet's oeuvre, presenting the increasingly lyrical,
meditative poems written in the years following his banishment from
China in 1989. Translated into twenty-five languages, Bei Dao's
work has long been appreciated internationally, but is just
recently gaining a larger audience in the US. At The Sky's Edge
becomes Bei Dao's seventh book published by New Directions and is
the first time Forms of Distance appears in a paperback edition.
The translations of David Hinton, who was awarded the prestigious
Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from The Academy of American
Poets in 1997, capture both the musicality and density of the
original Chinese. Quiet, spare, these are poems of paradox and
possibility, of words carefully balanced, of a world on edge.
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