SidetracksBei Dao Sidetracks, Bei Daos first new collection in almost fifteen years, is also the poets first long poem and his magnum opusthe artistic culmination of a lifetime devoted to the renewal and reinvention of language. As a poet, I am always lost, Bei Dao once said. Opening with a prologue of heavenly questions and followed by thirty four cantos, Sidetracks travels forward and backward along the divergent paths of the poets wandering lifefrom his time

and draped bodies evaporating to reveal others behind them

creating a deep and evocative experience by this adventurous and endlessly exciting poet

Willem Thies

Adrienne Rich was the singular voice of her generation

Part protest against reality

” but can also be broken down into its component words: “bi” (bi/two)

In Border Wisdom

Translator Michael Martin Shea exercises great precision

de Uruguyaanse Alejandra Darriular en de Nederlandse Mirjam Musch delen hun gedichten in het Spaans en in het Nederlands en vertellen over hun ervaringen op het kruispunt van culturen

and longing with remarkable openness and humanity

the mundane and the surreal

personal and social grooming