Bei Dao - March 3, 1999

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UA Poetry Center

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Modern Languages Auditorium
Bei Dao

Bei Dao reads from Old Snow (1991), Forms of Distance (1993), Landscape Over Zero (1996) and Unlock (2000). Dennis Evans reads the English translations.

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Welcome, Introduction and Opening Remarks
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by Alison Hawthorne Deming, Fang Lizhi, and Bei Dao

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"At This Moment"
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Citation

Bei Dao. Old Snow. Trans. Bonnie S. McDougall and Chen Maiping. New York: New Directions, 1991.

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"more unfamiliar than an accident..."
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Bei Dao. Old Snow. Trans. Bonnie S. McDougall and Chen Maiping. New York: New Directions, 1991.

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"He opens wide a third eye..."
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Bei Dao. Old Snow. Trans. Bonnie S. McDougall and Chen Maiping. New York: New Directions, 1991.

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"A Picture"
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Bei Dao. Old Snow. Trans. Bonnie S. McDougall and Chen Maiping. New York: New Directions, 1991.

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"For T. Tranströmer"
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Bei Dao. Forms of Distance. Trans. David Hinton. New York: New Directions, 1993.

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"A New Century"
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Bei Dao. Forms of Distance. Trans. David Hinton. New York: New Directions, 1993.

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"Asking the Sky"
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Bei Dao. Forms of Distance. Trans. David Hinton. New York: New Directions, 1993.

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"Allegiance"
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Bei Dao. Forms of Distance. Trans. David Hinton. New York: New Directions, 1993.

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"A Portrait"
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Track cuts out briefly in the middle.

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Bei Dao. Forms of Distance. Trans. David Hinton. New York: New Directions, 1993.

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"Untitled"
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Bei Dao. Landscape Over Zero. Trans. David Hinton and Yanbing Chen. New York: New Directions, 1996.

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"This Day"
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Bei Dao. Landscape Over Zero. Trans. David Hinton and Yanbing Chen. New York: New Directions, 1996.

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"February"
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Bei Dao. Landscape Over Zero. Trans. David Hinton and Yanbing Chen. New York: New Directions, 1996.

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"As Far As I Know"
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Bei Dao. Landscape Over Zero. Trans. David Hinton and Yanbing Chen. New York: New Directions, 1996.

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"Nightwatch"
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Bei Dao. Landscape Over Zero. Trans. David Hinton and Yanbing Chen. New York: New Directions, 1996.

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"Untitled"
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Bei Dao. Landscape Over Zero. Trans. David Hinton and Yanbing Chen. New York: New Directions, 1996.

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"Landscape Over Zero"
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Bei Dao. Landscape Over Zero. Trans. David Hinton and Yanbing Chen. New York: New Directions, 1996.

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"Keyword"
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Bei Dao. Landscape Over Zero. Trans. David Hinton and Yanbing Chen. New York: New Directions, 1996.

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"June"
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Translation differs from published version.

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Bei Dao. Unlock. Trans. Eliot Weinberger and Iona Man-Cheong. New York: New Directions, 2000.

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"Untitled (Soaked by a fog...)" and "Mission"
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Translations differ from published versions. Track cuts out briefly between poems.

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Bei Dao. Unlock. Trans. Eliot Weinberger and Iona Man-Cheong. New York: New Directions, 2000.

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"Substituting"
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Translation differs from the published version, which bears the title "Substitute-Teaching."

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Bei Dao. Unlock. Trans. Eliot Weinberger and Iona Man-Cheong. New York: New Directions, 2000.

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"Night Sky"
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Translation differs from published version.

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Bei Dao. Unlock. Trans. Eliot Weinberger and Iona Man-Cheong. New York: New Directions, 2000.

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Bei Dao
Photographer
Dennis Evans
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Bei Dao
Photographer
Dennis Evans
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