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A book that has been read but is in excellent condition. No obvious damage to the cover, with the dust jacket included for hard covers. No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, and no underlining/highlighting of text or writing in the margins. May be very minimal identifying marks on the inside cover. Very minimal wear and tear. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
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ISBN
9789629965129

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Chinese University of Hong KONG, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
9629965127
ISBN-13
9789629965129
eBay Product ID (ePID)
113094282

Product Key Features

Book Title
Words and the World (Twenty-Volume Set)
Number of Pages
1200 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2012
Topic
Anthologies (Multiple Authors), General
Genre
Poetry
Author
Bei Bei Dao
Book Series
Words and the World Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
2.5 in
Item Weight
23.5 Oz
Item Length
11 in
Item Width
7 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Reviews
The box-set effect encourages reading at cross-cultural purposes, to be sure, and a nice leveling effect emerges between poets, poems, and languages. The work inside is generally stunning, strange, and vibrant, in no small part due to having crossed so many borders to appear before your very eyes.
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Number of Volumes
20 vols.
Synopsis
Drawn from Hong Kong International Poetry Nights 2011, Words and the World (Twenty-volume Set) is an extended edition of the single-volume anthology Words and the World: International Poetry Nights in Hong Kong . It comprises twenty pocket-sized chapbooks encased in a fine paper box, each containing more selected works by one of the internationally renowned poets included in the anthology, accompanied by English and/or Chinese translations. The goal of the collection is to disseminate and make accessible the best of contemporary international poetry through high quality translations. Each of the twenty volumes can also be purchased separately. Poets include: Mar a Baranda, R gis Bonvicino, Arkadii Dragomoshchenko, Bejan Matur, Paul Muldoon, Vivek Narayanan, Tomaz Salamun, Silke Scheuermann, Shuntaro Tanikawa, C. D, Wright, Chen Ko Hua, Ling Yu, Lo Chih Cheng, Tian Yuan, Wong Leung Wo, Xi Chuan, Yao Feng, Yip Fai, Yu Jian, Yu Xiang., Drawn from Hong Kong International Poetry Nights 2011, Words and the World (Twenty-volume Set) is an extended edition of the single-volume anthology Words and the World: International Poetry Nights in Hong Kong . It comprises twenty pocket-sized chapbooks encased in a fine paper box, each containing more selected works by one of the internationally renowned poets included in the anthology, accompanied by English and/or Chinese translations. The goal of the collection is to disseminate and make accessible the best of contemporary international poetry through high quality translations. Each of the twenty volumes can also be purchased separately. Poets include:María Baranda, Régis Bonvicino, Arkadii Dragomoshchenko, Bejan Matur, Paul Muldoon, Vivek Narayanan, Tomaz Salamun, Silke Scheuermann, Shuntaro Tanikawa, C. D, Wright, Chen Ko Hua, Ling Yu, Lo Chih Cheng, Tian Yuan, Wong Leung Wo, Xi Chuan, Yao Feng, Yip Fai, Yu Jian, Yu Xiang.

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