Sidetracks Water

Sidetracks WaterBei 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

the painful ongoing process of letting go

flyers and other printed matter shelved in queer and feminist archives remind us to question the notion of single authorship altogether and instead study graphic design as a decisively collaborative and transdisciplinary practice

our unnamed narrator begins to put the pieces of her birth family’s history together through the stories told to her by her mother

published in 1981

Tatsumi Hijikata (1928-1986) is a legendary figure in the history of art and contemporary dance

to what “catches in the throat

Sundial collects two long poems from Bay Area writer Alli Warren

Gesitueerd in de intieme wereld van een tuin

Gaia dringt zich als muze op

and truncated sestinas

YOU CAN HAVE IT ALL

and media landscapes while trapped in a world structured to extract as much data and capital as possible