The Rose of Time: New and Selected Poems [Paperback]

in the mirror there is always this momentBei Dao uses words as if he were fighting for his life with them.... [He] has found a way to speak to all of us.Bei Daos writing provides ample evidence of the written words potential to effect political change.His poems are intense, elegant and impressionistic.A selection from the lifework of the internationally renowned poet Bei Dao, who is like reading Chekhov or Turgenev reflected in a porcelain bowl (