Sidetracks
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A lyrical masterpiece by the renowned poet with a “Whitman-like rhetorical immensity coupled with a passionately eccentric sensibility” (Carol Muske Dukes, Los Angeles Times)
A TIME MUST-READ BOOK OF 2024
A 2024 NPR BOOK WE LOVE
A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2024
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE
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 reinve...






















