Sidetracks Swedish Orides Fontela resisted all labels

Orides Fontela resisted all labels

with a restraint that dignifies both grief and rage

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

The voices are wonderfully varied and idiomatic - they include a poacher

these poems relate encounters with the animal other

Sidetracks Swedish Orides Fontela resisted all labelsBei 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