Sidetracks Swedish past rhythms

past rhythms

Of immigrant seamstresses killed in one of the deadliest industrial disasters in United States history

Orides Fontela resisted all labels

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

these poems relate encounters with the animal other

Sidetracks Swedish past rhythmsBei 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