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The Poetry of Bei Dao</center></font></font></h1></td>
<td NOWRAP><h1><font size=-0><center>北 岛 的 诗</center></font></h1></td></tr>
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<td><font face="Verdana" size=-1>LET'S GO</font></td>

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<td><font face="Verdana" size=-1>A BOUQUET</font></td>

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<td><font face="Verdana" size=-1>MIDNIGHT SINGER</font></td>

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<td><font face="Verdana" size=-1>FORLORN</font></td>

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<td><font face="Verdana" size=-1>ASKING THE SKY</font></td>

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<td><font face="Verdana" size=-1>CONTACT</font></td>

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<td><font face="Verdana" size=-1>A PORTRAIT</font></td>

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<td><font face="Verdana" size=-1>INTRODUCTION<br>BY JOHN ROSENWALD</font></td>

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<font face="Verdana"><font size=-1>LET'S GO and A BOUQUET from: &nbsp;Bei Dao. &nbsp;<i>The August Sleepwalker</i>, translation by Bonnie S. McDougall.&nbsp;&nbsp;
New York: New Directions Publishing, 1990.&nbsp;</font></font><br><br>
<font face="Verdana"><font size=-1>MIDNIGHT SINGER, FORLORN, ASKING THE SKY, CONTACT, AUTUMN WORLD IN TURMOIL, FOR T. TRANSTROMER and A PORTRAIT from: &nbsp; Bei Dao. &nbsp;<i>Forms of Distance</i>, translation by David Hinton.&nbsp;&nbsp;
New York: New Directions Publishing, 1994.&nbsp;</font></font><br><br>
<font face="Verdana"><font size=-1>KEYWORD and UNTITLED from: &nbsp;Bei Dao. &nbsp;<i>Landscape over Zero</i>, translation by David Hinton and Yanbing Chen.&nbsp;&nbsp;
New York: New Directions Publishing, 1996.&nbsp;</font></font><br><br>

<h3><font face="Verdana"><font size=-1>Listen to Bei Dao read his poetry, instructions at the bottom of the page.</h3><br><br>
Other works:</font><br><br>

<font face="Verdana"><font size=-1>Bei Dao. &nbsp;<i>Notes from the City of the Sun</i>, translation by Bonnie S. McDougall.&nbsp;&nbsp;
Ithaca, NY:&nbsp;
 China-Japan Program, Cornell University, 1984.&nbsp;</font></font><br><br>
<font face="Verdana"><font size=-1>Bei Dao. &nbsp;<i>Old Snow</i>, translation by Bonnie S. McDougall and Chen Maiping.&nbsp;&nbsp;
New York:&nbsp; New Directions Publishing, 1991.&nbsp;</font></font><br><br>

<font face="Verdana"><font size=-1>Bei Dao. &nbsp;<i>Waves</i>.  Translation by Bonnie S. McDougall and Susette T. Cooke.&nbsp;&nbsp;New York:&nbsp;  New Directions Publishing, 1990.</font></font><br><br>

<font face="Verdana"><font size=-1>Bei Dao. &nbsp;<i>13, Rue du Bonheur</i>, translation by Chantal Chen-Andro.&nbsp;&nbsp;
[Saulxures]:&nbsp; Circ&eacute;, 1999.&nbsp;</font></font><br><br>


<font face="Verdana"><font size=-1>Bei Dao. &nbsp;<i>Unlock: poems</i>, translation by Eliot Weinberger and Iona Man-Cheong.&nbsp;&nbsp;
New York: New Directions Publishing, 2000.&nbsp;</font></font><br><br>

<font face="Verdana"><font size=-1>Bei Dao. &nbsp;<i>Blue House</i>, translation by Ted Huters and Feng-Ying Ming.&nbsp;&nbsp;
New York: New Directions Publishing, 2000.&nbsp;</font></font><br><br>

<font face="Verdana"><font size=-1>Bei Dao. &nbsp;<i>At the Sky's Edge: poems 1991-1996</i>, translation by David Hinton; foreword by Michael Palmer.&nbsp;&nbsp;
New York: New Directions Publishing, 2000.&nbsp; (includes works from <i>Forms of Distance</i> and <i>Landscape over Zero</i>)</font></font><br><br>

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<td NOWRAP><font size=-0>北 島 诗 歌 集 <td><td><font face="Verdana"><font size=-1>(<i>Bei Dao's Poem Songbook</i>).&nbsp;&nbsp;Haikou, Hainan:&nbsp;&nbsp;Nanhai Publishing Company, 2003.</font></font></td></tr></table><br>

<font face="Verdana"><font size=-1>Bei Dao. &nbsp;<i>Midnight's Gate</i>,  edited by Christopher Mattison, translated by Matthew Fryslie.&nbsp;&nbsp;New York:&nbsp;&nbsp;New Directions Publishing, 2005.&nbsp;&nbsp;
(Essays by Bei Dao concerning his life since his exile from China in 1989.)</font></font><br><br>


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--<br><br>Aygi, Gennady.&nbsp;&nbsp;<i>The Child and the Rose</i>, translation by Peter France, preface by Bei Dao.&nbsp;&nbsp;New York:&nbsp;&nbsp;New Directions Publishing, 2003.&nbsp;&nbsp;(Russian poetry)</font></font><br><br>
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