Sidetracks Swedish these are poems that are

these are poems that are listening in when they’re not supposed to

The voices are wonderfully varied and idiomatic - they include a poacher

Anaïs Duplan

past rhythms

Orides Fontela resisted all labels

Sidetracks Swedish these are poems that areBei 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