Landscape Over Zero

Bei Dao

Landscape Over Zero

by Bei Dao

Often reported to be on the short list for the Nobel Prize in Literature, and recently elected an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Bei Dao is China’s pre-eminent contemporary poet. The poems of Landscape Over Zero reach new heights of cinematic fusion as “a powerful compression drives these jostling contrasts in fractured resonating landscapes” (The Reading Lamp). Bei Dao’s unique voice and imagery are at once more lyrical and more poignant than in past collections. Thoughts of futility, distance, and coldness wrestle with a resignation that home has been lost. But now there is the glimmer of possibility that a new home can be gained and love renewed.

Paperback(published Oct, 01 1996)

ISBN
9780811213349
Page Count
112
Portrait of Bei Dao

Bei Dao

Contemporary Chinese poet, representative of the Misty Poets.