Sidetracks (eBook)

Bei Dao (Autor)

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2024
176 Seiten
New Directions (Verlag)
978-0-8112-3845-8 (ISBN)

Infos

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. "e;As a poet, I am always lost,"e; 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 poet's wandering life-from his time as a Young Pioneer in Beijing, through the years of exile living in six countries, back to the rural construction site where he worked during the Cultural Revolution, to the "e;sunshine tablecloth"e; in his kitchen in Davis, California, and his emotional visit home after a thirteen-year separation ("e;the mother tongue has deepened my foreignness"e;). All the various currents of our times rush into his lifelines, reconfigured through the "e;vortex of experience"e; and the poet's encounters with friends and strangers, artists and ghosts, as he moves from place to place, unable to return home. As the poet Michael Palmer has noted, "e;Bei Dao's work, in its rapid transitions, abrupt juxtapositions, and frequent recurrence to open syntax evokes the un-speakability of the exile's condition. It is a poetry of explosive convergences, of submersions and unfixed boundaries, 'amid languages.'"e;

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.5.2024
• Übersetzer: Jeffrey Yang
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik
• Schlagworte: Bei Dao • book-length poem • California • Cantos • Chinese • Chinese literature • Chinese poetry • communism • Contemporary poetry • Cultural revolution • Displacement • exile • expat literature • Experimental poetry • Long poem • MAO • obscure poetry • Political Poetry • post-mao poetry • Whitman • young pioneer • zhao zhenkai
• ISBN-10: 0-8112-3845-8 / 0811238458
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-3845-8 / 9780811238458