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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

a journey and the language used to write about it

The poem won’t go away

in transition

By intertwining myth and tradition with the familiar objects and smells of his lived present

Kate Briggs’s This Little Art is a genre-bending song for the practice of literary translation

Their publications were fragile-xeroxed

Lerner takes the hatred of poetry as the starting point of his defence of the art

Acht schitterende facsimile-cahiers met nooit eerder gepubliceerde tekeningen en gedichten

She constructs verbal photographs of a series of mysterious towns

A visionary anthology that examines and reimagines the archive as a form of collective record-keeping

Litho printed text

we realise that language -- whiplike -- casts ahead of itself a fortuitous form