Sidetracks Swedish Elke schreef van elke letter

Elke schreef van elke letter draagt in zich de sporen van een taal die tot het uiter­ste heeft moeten torsen

with a restraint that dignifies both grief and rage

Anaïs Duplan

It centres on themes that recur frequently in Kareem's poetry - self-portraiture

Sidetracks Swedish Elke schreef van elke letterBei 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