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Sidetracks

ISBN-13: 9781800174276
Publisher: CARCANET PRESS
Imprint: CARCANET PRESS
By Bei Dao, Translated by Jeffrey Yang
Price: AUD $34.99
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Local release date: 23/10/2024
Format: Paperback (216.00mm X 135.00mm) 144 pages Weight: 0g
Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]

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Google Preview: 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 the renewal and reinvention of language.; Bei Dao, pen name of Zhao Zhenkai, was born in Beijing in 1949. Forced into exile after the Tiananmen Massacre, he lived in Europe and the US until 2007, then settling in Hong Kong until, only recently, moving back to Beijing. Bei Dao is the author of seven books of poetry, a short-story collection, two essay collections, and an autobiography. His awards and honors include the Aragana Poetry Prize from the International Festival of Poetry in Casablanca and the Tuchosky Prize from Swedish PEN.;Jeffrey Yang is the author of four books of poetry and translator of Bei Dao's autobiography City Gate, Open Up and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Liu Xiaobo's June Fourth Elegies. He works as the Editor-At-Large for New Directions Publishing, and also edits titles for New York Review Books.; Chinese poet Bei Dao’s first new collection in almost fifteen years is also his first long poem and his magnum opus: the artistic culmination of a lifetime devoted to the renewal and reinvention of language • 34 cantos follow a prologue of heavenly questions, travelling forward and backward along the divergent paths of the poet’s wandering life through years of exile living in 6 countries • All the currents of our times are reconfigured through the poet’s encounters with friends and strangers, as well as with other artists and ghosts, as he moves from place to place, unable to return home; Google Preview content