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

Books by Eliot Weinberger

Karmic Traces: Essays
Eliot Weinberger
Paperback, 2001
The New Directions Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry
Eliot Weinberger
Paperback, 2005
Written on the Sky: Poems from the Japanese
Eliot Weinberger, Kenneth Rexroth
Paperback, 2009
“Rexroth’s readings from the Japanese master poets are breathtaking in their simplicity and clarity.”—The New York Times
The Ghosts of Birds
Eliot Weinberger
Paperback, 2016
A new collection from “one of the world’s great essayists” (The New York Times)
Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei
Eliot Weinberger, Octavio Paz
Paperback, 2016
A new expanded edition of the classic study of translation, finally back in print
Angels & Saints
Eliot Weinberger, Mary Wellesley
Hardback, 2020
A gorgeously illustrated co-publication with Christine Burgin by “one of the world’s great essayists” (The New York Times). With a guide to the illustrations by Mary Wellesley.
Written on the Sky: Poems from the Japanese
Eliot Weinberger, Kenneth Rexroth
E Book, 2014
“Rexroth’s readings from the Japanese master poets are breathtaking in their simplicity and clarity.”—The New York Times
The Ghosts of Birds
Eliot Weinberger
E Book, 2016
A new collection from “one of the world’s great essayists” (The New York Times)
Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei
Eliot Weinberger, Octavio Paz
E Book, 2016
A new expanded edition of the classic study of translation, finally back in print
Angels & Saints
Eliot Weinberger, Mary Wellesley
E Book, 2020
A gorgeously illustrated co-publication with Christine Burgin by “one of the world’s great essayists” (The New York Times). With a guide to the illustrations by Mary Wellesley.