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    Eliot Weinberger

    Eliot Weinberger’s books of literary essays include Karmic Traces, An Elemental Thing, The Ghosts of Birds, and Angels & Saints. His political writings are collected in What I Heard About Iraq and What Happened Here: Bush Chronicles. The author of a study of Chinese poetry translation, 19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei, he is a translator of the poetry of Bei Dao and the editor of The New Directions Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry. He was formerly the general editor of the series Calligrams: Writings from and on China and the literary editor of the Murty Classical Library of India. Among his many translations of Latin American poetry and prose are The Poems of Octavio Paz, Paz’s In Light of India, Vicente Huidobro’s Altazor, Xavier Villaurrutia’s Nostalgia for Death, and Jorge Luis Borges’ Seven Nights and Selected Non-Fictions. He has been publishing with New Directions since 1975.

    Eliot Weinberger

    Eliot Weinberger’s books of literary essays include Karmic Traces, An Elemental Thing, The Ghosts of Birds, and Angels & Saints. His political writings are collected in What I Heard About Iraq and What Happened Here: Bush Chronicles. The author of a study of Chinese poetry translation, 19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei, he is a translator of the poetry of Bei Dao and the editor of The New Directions Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry. He was formerly the general editor of the series Calligrams: Writings from and on China and the literary editor of the Murty Classical Library of India. Among his many translations of Latin American poetry and prose are The Poems of Octavio Paz, Paz’s In Light of India, Vicente Huidobro’s Altazor, Xavier Villaurrutia’s Nostalgia for Death, and Jorge Luis Borges’ Seven Nights and Selected Non-Fictions. He has been publishing with New Directions since 1975.

    Books by Eliot Weinberger

    • The Life of Tu Fu

      Eliot Weinberger

      Paperback, 2024

      A book-length poem by “our best living literary essayist” (Forrest Gander).

    • The Life of Tu Fu

      Eliot Weinberger

      E Book

      A book-length poem by “our best living literary essayist” (Forrest Gander).

    • Poetry Pamphlets 1-12 (Boxed Set)

      Osama Alomar, Lydia Davis, Hilda Doolittle, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Forrest Gander, Oliverio Girondo, Susan Howe, Sylvia Legris, Bernadette Mayer, Dunya Mikhail, Alejandra Pizarnik, Nathaniel Tarn, Eliot Weinberger

      Paperback, 2015

      Collections 1-12 in New Directions' Poetry Pamphlet series

    • The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz: 1957-1987

      Octavio Paz, Eliot Weinberger, Eliot Weinberger, Elizabeth Bishop, Paul Blackburn, Lysander Kemp, Denise Levertov, John Frederick Nims, Charles Tomlinson

      Bilingual Edition, Paperback, 1991

      “Paz's poetry is a seismograph of our century’s turbulence, a crossroads where East meets West."—Publishers Weekly

    • A Tale of Two Gardens

      Octavio Paz, Eliot Weinberger

      Paperback, 1997

      A Tale of Two Gardens collects the poetry from over 40 years of Nobel Prize winner Octavio Paz's many and various commitments to India—as Mexican ambassador, student of Indian philosophy, and above...

    • Figures & Figurations

      Marie José Paz, Octavio Paz, Eliot Weinberger, Eliot Weinberger

      Hardback, 2002

    • Songs of Love, Moon, & Wind: Poems from the Chinese

      Kenneth Rexroth, Eliot Weinberger

      Paperback, 2009

      “Nothing stands still in this poetry: the wind blows the trees, the lake water ripples and the ever-present road runs in and out of the hills.”—American Poetry Review

    • Seven Nights

      Jorge Luis Borges, Eliot Weinberger, Alastair Reid

      Revised Edition, Paperback, 2009

      A collection drawn from Jorge Luis Borges' lectures.

    • The Rose of Time: New and Selected Poems

      Bei Dao, Eliot Weinberger

      Bilingual Edition, Paperback, 2010

      A selection from the lifework of the internationally renowned poet Bei Dao, who is “like reading Chekhov or Turgenev reflected in a porcelain bowl” (The Times [London]).

    • Everything and Nothing

      Jorge Luis Borges, Donald A. Yates, Donald A. Yates, James E. Irby, John M. Fein, Eliot Weinberger

      Paperback, 2010

      A pocket-sized Pearls edition of some of Borges’ best fictions and essays.

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