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A Phone Call From Dalian Selected Poetry of Han Dong / edited by Nicky Harmon ; translated from Chinese by Nicky Harmon, Maghiel van Crevel, Yu Yan Chen, Naikan Tao, Tony Prince & Michael Day.
A phone call from Dalian : selected poetry of Han Dong = 来自大连的电话 : selected poetry of 韩东 edited by Nicky Harman ; translated from Chinese by Nicky Harman ... [et al.] .
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Han, Dong, 1961- author.
- Series:
- Jintian series of contemporary literature.
- Jintian series of contemporary literature
- Language:
- Chinese
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF (xix, 106 pages).)
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2014
- Other Title:
- 来自大连的电话
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2013.
- Language Note:
- Poems in English and Chinese on facing pages.
- Summary:
- In a 1989 interview, Han Dong declared that he wrote poetry for nobody, not even himself. He likens the poet to a roofer: "I write poetry for the constitution of poetry, just as a roofer gives no thought to who lives in the house whose roof he is covering--he builds to meet the criteria of what a house is. Poetry is not subordinate to purposes beyond itself: its highest purpose is to be without purpose."
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9789629969042
- 9629969041
- OCLC:
- 871208017
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