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A TIME MUST-READ BOOK OF 2024
A 2024 NPR BOOK WE LOVE
A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2024
Sidetracks, 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…
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Why read it?
1 author picked Sidetracks as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
One of the great international writers of our time, Bei Dao, who has suffered serious health setbacks, writes one of his-- and perhaps his most-- powerful books of poems as he looks back-- much as Pound did in the Pisan Cantos-- on his life.
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