Xiaobo, Liu
June Fourth Elegies.
Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2012. First printing. 9781555976101 229 pages.
Volume is bound in black cloth, with stamped silver lettering to spine. Small black spot appears at bottom edge of text block. Book is otherwise in excellent condition. Dust jacket has very small indentation to side edge of upper inside quadrant. Jacket is otherwise as new. Text is bilingual in Chinese and English.
The first publication of the poetry of 2010 Nobel Peace Prize recipient Liu Xiaobo (1955-2017), with a foreword by the Dalai Lama, an introduction originally written by Liu Xiaobo. Translator Jeffrey Yang provides afterword and notes offering literary, historical and biographical context. “June Fourth Elegies” presents Liu’s poems written across twenty years in memory of fellow protestors at Tiananmen Square, as well as poems addressed to his wife, Liu Xia.