August Sleepwalker Pa

The August Sleepwalker introduces to American readers the compelling and remarkable poetry of China's foremost modern poet. Bei Dao (Zhao Zhenkai). One of the most gifted and controversial writers to emerge from the massive upheavals of contemporary China. Bei Dao both reflects and criticizes the conflicts of the Cultural Revolution of the late '60s and '70s. A youthful Red Guard whose early disillusionment with the destructiveness of the times made him an outsider. Bei Dao joined with other underground poets attempting to create an alternative literature that challenged the received orthodoxies of Maoist China. The author now lives in exile. Book jacket.

Introduction	p. 9
Translator's Note	p. 15
Preface to the American Edition	p. 16

Hello, Baihua Mountain	p. 19
Rainbow Flower	p. 20
I Go into the Rain Mist	p. 21
True	p. 22
Smiles, Snowflakes, Tears	p. 23
Cruel Hope	p. 24
Song of Migrating Birds	p. 29
A Day	p. 30
Notes from the City of the Sun	p. 31
The Answer	p. 33
Let's Go	p. 34
All	p. 35
Street Corner	p. 36
Recollection	p. 37
The Unfamiliar Beach	p. 38
A Bouquet	p. 40
My Transparent Grief	p. 41
Yes. Yesterday	p. 42
The Island	p. 43
The Witness	p. 46
The Bank	p. 47
Dusk: Dingjiatan	p. 48

Rainy Night	p. 51
Sleep, Valley	p. 52
Boat Ticket	p. 53
Stretch out your hands to me	p. 55
The Orange Is Ripe	p. 56
The Red Sailboat	p. 57
Habit	p. 58
Through the melody of your breathing	p. 59
You Said	p. 60
Our Every Morning Sun	p. 61
Declaration	p. 62
An End or a Beginning	p. 63
Harbour Dreams	p. 66
Lost	p. 67
Chords	p. 68
The Boundary	p. 69
Maple Leaves and Seven Stars	p. 70
The Old Temple	p. 71
In a Decade	p. 72
Night: Theme and Variations	p. 73
Tomorrow, No	p. 74
The Artist's Life	p. 75
Sequel to a Legend	p. 76
Love Story	p. 77
The Snowline	p. 78
Comet	p. 79
A Country Night	p. 80
Head for Winter	p. 81
Nightmare	p. 83
The Way Back	p. 84
A Toast	p. 85
You Wait for Me in the Rain	p. 86
Resume	p. 87
Rancour turns a drop of water muddy	p. 88
Accomplices	p. 89
Random Thoughts	p. 90
The Host	p. 92
For Many Years	p. 93
Portrait of a Young Poet	p. 94
The Echo	p. 96
The Window on the Cliff	p. 97
Strangers	p. 98
Notes in the Rain	p. 99
On Tradition	p. 100

The August Sleepwalker	p. 103
One Step	p. 104
Another Legend	p. 105
It has always been so	p. 106
Temptation	p. 107
Underground Station	p. 108
Blanks	p. 109
A perpetual stranger	p. 110
Orphans	p. 111
Bodhisattva	p. 112
The Art of Poetry	p. 113
Dirge	p. 114
Doubtful Things	p. 115
Starting from Yesterday	p. 116
The Fable	p. 117
In the Dawn's Bronze Mirror	p. 118
Expectation	p. 119
Electric Shock	p. 120
Language	p. 121
A Single Room	p. 122
SOS	p. 123
Deathwatch Night	p. 124
Space	p. 125
Don't Ask Our Ages	p. 126
Daydream	p. 127
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