Chinese poet Guo Lusheng (also known as "Shi Zhi"), whom he counts as an important precursor to the Misty Poets. In his youth, due to government restrictions and an abbreviated education, his exposure to Western literature was limited. In interviews, he has pointed to the influence of the Spanish modernist poets Federico García Lorca, Rafael Alberti, Vicente Aleixandre, and Antonio Machado, the Russian poets Boris Pasternak and Osip Mandelstam, and in particular the German-language poet Paul Celan. Selected bibliography Poetry Notes from the City of the Sun (English publication: 1983) The August Sleepwalker (Chinese publication (as Bei Dao's Poetry): 1986; English publication: 1988, 1990) Old Snow (English publication: 1991) Forms of Distance (English publication: 1994) Landscape Over Zero (English publication: 1995) Unlock (English publication: 2000) The Rose of Time: New and Selected Poems (English publication: 2010) In addition, two books published in English have collected previously published material: At the Sky's Edge (1996) is a re-issue of both Forms of Distance and Landscape Over Zero, and Endure (2011) collects new translations of previously available work. Nonfiction Blue House (essays, English publication: 2000) Midnight's Gate (essays, English publication: 2005) Green Lamp (essays, Chinese publication: 2008) City Gate, Open Up (memoir, Chinese publication: 2010; English publication: 2017) Fiction Waves (Chinese publication: 1985; English publication: 1989, 1990) For children Bei Dao is the series editor of the “For Children” series published by China CITIC Press. Poems for Children (selected by Bei Dao) Essays for Children (selected by Li Tuo and Bei Dao) Ancient Chinese Poems for Children (selected by Chia-ying Yeh, illustrated by Xu Bing) Animal Fables for Children (written and illustrated by Huang Yongyu) The Kingdom of Chinese Characters for Children (by Cecilia Lindqvist, translated from the Swedish by LI Zhiyi) Further reading Edmond, Jacob, "Bei Dao and World Literature," A Common Strangeness: Contemporary Poetry, Cross-Cultural Encounter, Comparative Literature, New York: Fordham University Press, 2012. pp. 95–124. Jin, Siyan, Subjective Writing in Contemporary Chinese Literature, Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2017. Kinkley, Jeffrey (editor), After Mao: Chinese Literature and Society, 1978-1981, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985. Li, Dian, The Chinese Poetry of Bei Dao, 1978-2000: Resistance and Exile, Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 2006. McDougall, Bonnie, "Bei Dao's Poetry: Revelation and Communication," Modern Chinese Literature, Vol. 1, No. 2, 1985. pp. 225–252. McDougall, Bonnie, "Zhao Zhenkai's Fiction: A Study in Cultural Alienation," Modern Chinese Literature, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1984.