Biography

北岛（1949 －），原名赵振开 ，中国当代诗人 , 为朦胧诗代表人物之一 。先后获瑞典笔会文学奖 、美国西部笔会中心自由写作奖 、古根海姆奖学金等 , 并被选为美国艺术文学院终身荣誉院士 。出版的诗集有：《陌生的海滩》（1978）、《北岛诗选》（1986）、《在天涯》（1993）、《午夜歌手》（1995）、《零度以上的风景线》（1996）、《开锁》（1999），其他作品有：《波动》及英译本（1984）、《归来的陌生人》（1987）、《蓝房子》（1999），散文集《失败之书》（2004），散文集《青灯》(2008) 。北岛的作品已被译成二十多种文字出版 。

BEI DAO, born in Beijing in 1949, has lived in over six countries, writing, teaching and lecturing around the world. Representative of the “Obscure Poets,” he has received numerous international awards for his poetry, and is an honorary member of The American Academy of Arts and Letters. With Mang Ke, he is the founding editor of the literary journal Jintian. Now a U.S. citizen, he is currently Professor of Humanities in the Center for East Asian Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

CLAYTON ESHLEMAN‘s poems, critical essays, and translations of poets as important and diverse as César Vallejo, Aimé Césaire, Pablo Neruda, Antonin Artaud, Vladimir Holan, Henri Michaux, and Bernard Bador have earned him international acclaim. Also the founder and editor of two literary journals, Caterpillar (1967-1973) and Sulfur (1981-2000), he has published over forty books, including, most recently, three books of poetry — Anticline (Black Widow Press, 2010), Reciprocal Distillations (Hot Whiskey Press, 2007) and An Alchemist with One Eye on Fire (Black Widow Press, 2006); three translations — Aimé Césaire’s Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan University Press, 2001) and Conductors of the Pit (Soft Skull Press, 2005), as well as The Complete Poetry of César Vallejo (University of California Press, 2006); and three books of prose — Companion Spider (Wesleyan University Press, 2002), Archaic Design (Black Widow Press, 2007) and Juniper Fuse: Upper Paleolithic Imagination & the Construction of the Underworld (Wesleyan University Press, 2007). Professor Emeritus at Eastern Michigan University, he lives in Ypsilanti, Michigan, with his wife Caryl. For several decades, they have led yearly tours to the Ice Age painted caves of southwestern France.

LUCAS KLEIN — a former radio DJ, barman, and union organizer — is a writer, translator, and editor of Cipher Journal. His translations, essays, and poems have appeared in Two Lines, Jacket, and Drunken Boat. He regularly reviews books for Rain Taxi and other venues. A graduate of Middlebury College (BA) and Yale University (PhD), he is assistant professor in the department of Chinese, Translation & Linguistics at City University of Hong Kong. Currently, he is working on the translations of Tang dynasty poet Li Shangyin and contemporary poet Xi Chuan.