Someone Must Rewrite Love Author: Beidao Publishing House: Hainan Publishing House

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Someone Must Rewrite Love is a collection of works by the famous poet Bei Dao, including 46 classic poems and prose works, presenting the full picture of Bei Dao's creation as a poet, prose writer, painter and photographer. The arrangement feature of "one poem and one article" is like the continuation of the Chinese poetry tradition. From "Memories of the Storm" to "The Exile of Ci" to "The Book of the Earth", the three collections of poems and prose works fully show the poet's life journey from childhood to the present, reflecting the exciting landscape of the second half of the 20th century.

"I am employed by a great memory." Bei Dao's poetry is the collective memory and spiritual mirror of a generation. Self and times, foreign land and hometown, history and reality, in all kinds of paradoxes and breaks, between departure and arrival, Bei Dao piles words into history. Bei Dao's prose is simple and interesting. From Allen Ginsberg's New York to Kafka's Prague, from Arafat's Ramallah to Lorca's Spain, he met poets and scholars of different identities in his wandering world travels. What he saw and heard was vivid and shocking; he also recalled his youth, close friends, and strong homesickness and sharp pain often came unexpectedly. The poet's pen writes prose, restoring the richness, sharpness and freshness of the Chinese language. There are also many paintings and photographs by Bei Dao in the book, which is another language he found besides words.

Editor's Recommendation:

★ The most resounding name in the contemporary Chinese poetry world, the collective memory and spiritual mirror of a generation, the best selection of works by the poet, essayist, painter and photographer Bei Dao. ——Bei Dao, a world-renowned Chinese poet and thinker, is a representative of the Misty Poetry School. He has engraved poetry into the hearts of a generation, highlighting the awakening of people and the awakening of the self; he founded Today magazine, and since the 1970s, it has cultivated a platform for Chinese writers to express themselves to the world. He is a Nobel Prize candidate, a lifetime honorary academician of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and was named the top of the "Top Ten Contemporary Chinese Poets" selected by Zhongshan magazine, and won the Swedish PEN Literature Award, the Guggenheim Award, the American Western PEN Center Freedom of Writing Award, the Japanese Otomo Noyaka Literary Award, the Zhongkun International Poetry Award, and the highest honor "Golden Wreath Award" of the Macedonia-Struga International Poetry Festival.

★ The author personally selected this autobiographical "Bei Dao Reader". This book is enough for reading Bei Dao. -- Carefully selected by Lin Daoqun, a famous publisher and Bei Dao's friend. 46 classic poems and prose works, with the arrangement feature of "one poem and one article", just like the continuation of the Chinese poetry tradition, present a complete and three-dimensional "poet Bei Dao". From "Memories of the Storm" to "The Exile of Ci" to "The Book of the Earth", the three collections of poems and prose fully show the poet's life journey from childhood to the present, reflecting the turbulent landscape of the second half of the 20th century. Includes classic poems such as "Days", "We", "Let's Go - To L", "The Rose of Time" and classic prose such as "Blue House", "Midnight Door", "Green Lamp", "Father", etc. Write prose with the pen of a poet, refine the text, bury the bones, and restore the richness, sharpness and freshness of the Chinese language.

★ Includes selected chapters from Bei Dao's new poem "Walking on a Different Path", published in simplified Chinese for the first time in the world. ——"Walking on a Different Path, I am always lost. My personal destiny and contemporary history have a dialogue-like relationship. I have experienced these years, met poets, friends, and some small figures. I feel that I must give an account of such a period of history." In Bei Dao's long poem "Walking on a Different Path", we can see the poet's sonorous voice as always, and the complex images and the dense parallelism like bullets shuttle more majestic. The long poem "Walking on a Different Path" has a total of 34 chapters, which took 11 years to write, and the questioning is still going on.

★ "Chinese is my only luggage", the poet Bei Dao's "travel path", in which he faces the world honestly while wandering. In an increasingly isolated era, we should rethink what cosmopolitanism is. ——Prose is wandering in words, and wandering is writing in the geographical and social sense. From Allen Ginsberg's New York to Kafka's Prague, from Arafat's Ramallah to Lorca's Spain... there are tears of a person on the mask of history, myths of broken power and its enemies, and companions on the road that extends beyond the country. Bei Dao meets and connects with poets and scholars of different identities from all over the world, and forms a heart-to-heart. Here are dialogues between yesterday and today, exchanges between self and the world, and reflections of history and reality. "The records outline those who have crossed the contemporary global landscape with their lives but are not fully accommodated and accommodated by this landscape. It is a noble attempt to rewrite humanity, self, others, and the relationship between self and others."

★ More than 20 photographs, paintings, and precious poetry manuscripts are collected, presenting Bei Dao's all-round creative appearance for the first time. Not only is he a poet, but he is also an artist and thinker. ——Includes three poetry manuscripts, paintings "This Moment" and "Origin•One", photographs "Waves", "Big World", "Island", "Window No.2", "Modern Life No.3", "Ruins", "Freedom", "Pisces", "Dream Moments", etc. Bei Dao believes that there is no threshold for photography, but "you have to find your own eyes".

★ The Utopia is a beautifully bound collector's edition, with Bei Dao's painting "Origin•No. 8" hot-stamped on the cover.

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