Selected Poems
$51.07
- Hardcover
128 pages
- Release Date
14 February 2022
Summary
With a cover design and foreword by Ai Weiwei, to coincide with the publication of his memoir, 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows.
A timeless, visionary collection of poems from one of China’s most acclaimed poets—now available in English for the first time in a generation and featuring a foreword by his son, contemporary artist and activist Ai Weiwei.
One of the most influential poets in Chinese history, Ai Qing is mostly unknown to Western readers, but his work has shap…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784877668 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1784877662 |
| Author: | Ai Qing, Robert Dorsett, Ai Weiwei |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 14 February 2022 |
| Weight: | 240g |
| Dimensions: | 218mm x 142mm x 20mm |
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About The Author
Ai Qing
Ai Qing is regarded as one of the finest modern Chinese poets, whose free verse was influential in the development of new poetry in China.
Robert Dorsett, translator, studied Chinese at the Yale-in-China Program at the Chinese University in Hong Kong. He received an M.D. from the State University of New York. He translated Wen Yiduo’s Stagnant Water & Other Poems and the memoirs of Gao Ertai, In Search of my Homeland- A Memoir of a Chinese Labor Camp with David Pollard. Robert Dorsett has also published his own poetry in The Literary Review, The Kenyon Review, Northwest Review, Poetry, and elsewhere.
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