Eliot Weinberger’s books of literary essays include Karmic Traces , An Elemental Thing , and The Ghosts of Birds. His political articles are collected in What I Heard About Iraq and What Happened Here: Bush Chronicles. The author of 19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei , he is a translator of the poetry of Bei Dao, the editor of The New Directions Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry , and the general editor of the series Calligrams: Writings from and on China. Among his translations of Latin American literature are The Poems of Octavio Paz , Jorge Luis Borges’ Selected Non-Fictions , Vicente Huidobro’s Altazor , and Xavier Villaurrutia’s Nostalgia for Death. His work regularly appears in the London Review of Books and has been translated into over thirty languages.