Sidetracks

by Bei Dao

Sidetracks, Bei Dao's first new collection in almost fifteen years, is also the poet's first long poem and his magnum opus--the 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 poet's wandering life--from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081123844X
• ISBN13: 9780811238441
• Release Date: May 2024
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 176 Pages