Sidetracks French Retallack takes on the paradoxical

Retallack takes on the paradoxical

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Sidetracks French Retallack takes on the paradoxicalBei 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