Someone Must Rewrite Love

"Someone Must Rewrite Love" is a collection of works by the famous poet Bei Dao. It contains 46 classic poems and prose works, presenting the entire creative picture of Bei Dao, a poet, essayist, painter, and photographer. The arrangement feature of "one poem, one article" is like the continuation of the tradition of Chinese poetry. From "Memory of the Storm" to "The Exile of Words" to "The Book of the Earth", the three collections of poems and essays completely show the poet's life journey from childhood to the present, reflecting the turbulent scenery of the times in the second half of the twentieth century. "I am employed by a great memory." Bei Dao's poetry is the collective memory and spiritual mirror of a generation. Self and time, foreign land and hometown, history and reality, in various paradoxes and ruptures, between departure and arrival, Bei Dao puts words into history. Bei Dao's prose is concise and interesting. From Allen Ginsberg's New York to Kafka's Prague, from Arafat's Ramallah to Lorca's Spain, he met poets and scholars of different identities during his wandering world travels. What he saw and heard was vivid and shocking; he also recalled the past events of his youth and close friends and relatives, and strong nostalgia and sharp pain often came unexpectedly. The poet writes prose to restore the richness, sensitivity and freshness of the Chinese language. The book also contains many paintings and photographs by Bei Dao, which is another language he found besides words.