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  • Seattle: Between Dreams Press, 1992
By Huang Beiling [aka Bei Ling]; Dan Heitcamp [illus.]
Seattle: Between Dreams Press, 1992. Very Good. Seattle: Between Dreams Press, 1992. Limited First Edition of 150 copies. Side-stapled chapbook (19.7cm); blue paper wraps with mounted woodcut by Dan Heitkamp; [32]pp. Front cover a bit rippled at top edge with some toning along spine. Binding sound and pages unmarked.

First collection by the Chinese Misty School poet, in English via various translators. Bei Ling launched his literary magazine Tendency (傾向) the following year, printing a few thousand copies in Hong Kong or Taiwan and delivering them by hand with friends in China. He was arrested for "illegal publication" in August of 2000 and detained for two weeks, before being fined and deported.

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