Sidetracks French and the fine art of

and the fine art of fabulation

De wereld staat nogmaals op tuimelen

can the answer be anything but wrong

These poems find breathing spaces within the minutes dilated by fear

At any rate

Sidetracks French and the fine art ofBei 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