Sidetracks - Bei Dao

A TIME MUST-READ BOOK OF 2024A 2024 NPR BOOK WE LOVEA NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2024LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZESidetracks, 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... Zobrazit více