The August Sleepwalker Bei Dao

The August Sleepwalker

Author: Bei Dao
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Book Title
The August Sleepwalker
Author
Bei Dao
ISBN
9780811211321
First published in the US in 1990, the year after the uprising of Chinese students at Tiananmen Square, The August Sleepwalker collects all the early poetry of Bei Dao, China's premier poet, now living in exile. The August Sleepwalker is an extremely popular book (30,000 copies sold in China in one month) which was quickly banned by the Chinese government. The collection includes all of the poems Bei Dao published between 1970 and 1986. Bei Dao has lived in exile since the Tiananmen Incident. He is widely esteemed as one of contemporary China's most significant writers. His work is experimental, and subjective, while remaining passionately engaged in the individual's response to a disordered world.Binding Type: PaperbackAuthor: Bei DaoPublisher: New Directions Publishing CorporationPublished: 04/17/2001ISBN: 9780811211321Pages: 140Weight: 0.36lbsSize: 7.99h x 5.40w x 0.43d
First published in the US in 1990, the year after the uprising of Chinese students at Tiananmen Square, The August Sleepwalker collects all the early poetry of Bei Dao, China's premier poet, now living in exile. The August Sleepwalker is an extremely popular book (30,000 copies sold in China in one month) which was quickly banned by the Chinese government. The collection includes all of the poems Bei Dao published between 1970 and 1986. Bei Dao has lived in exile since the Tiananmen Incident. He is widely esteemed as one of contemporary China's most significant writers. His work is experimental, and subjective, while remaining passionately engaged in the individual's response to a disordered world.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Bei Dao
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 04/17/2001
ISBN: 9780811211321
Pages: 140
Weight: 0.36lbs
Size: 7.99h x 5.40w x 0.43d
First published in the US in 1990, the year after the uprising of Chinese students at Tiananmen Square, The August Sleepwalker collects all the early poetry of Bei Dao, China's premier poet, now living in exile. The August Sleepwalker is an extremely popular book (30,000 copies sold in China in one month) which was quickly banned by the Chinese government. The collection includes all of the poems Bei Dao published between 1970 and 1986. Bei Dao has lived in exile since the Tiananmen Incident. He is widely esteemed as one of contemporary China's most significant writers. His work is experimental, and subjective, while remaining passionately engaged in the individual's response to a disordered world.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Bei Dao
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 04/17/2001
ISBN: 9780811211321
Pages: 140
Weight: 0.36lbs
Size: 7.99h x 5.40w x 0.43d