中國詩人北塔最新中文詩集《巨蟒緊抱街衢——北京詩選》于2019年9月由黑龍江北方文藝出版社精美推出。收詩約150首（含組詩），共240頁。
 
　　集子中所有的作品都源于并關于北京。作者已經在北京定居工作生活四分之一世紀，其間的愛恨情仇、酸甜苦辣在他的詩中都有或明或暗的記載和表現。由于中國都市發展的趨同性特征，他在北京的都市體驗和經驗，值得生活在其它中國城市中的人們所分享。
 
　　所有作品都跟旅游或宣傳無關，而是茫茫人海中一顆水滴深沉的思索、本真的嘆息和熱忱的吶喊。
   
　　這部詩集，嚴格意義上說，是現代主義哲學、美學和詩學視域中的第一部中國都市題材個人詩集。
   
　　本書書名中的三個詞“巨蟒”、“緊抱”、“街衢”正好都押了聲母，在聲音效果上如同金屬擲地！本書封面設計很有創意，也富有寓意。“巨蟒”、“緊抱”、“街衢”三個詞的排法巧妙，內部筆畫相互纏繞，達到巨蟒就是街衢、街衢也是巨蟒的境界。本書之排版樣式雅致精當，豐富而清脫。
 
　　在紙質書尤其是詩集出版嚴重不景氣的今天，北方文藝出版社暨社長宋玉成先生逆流而行，推出本書，顯現了純粹的人文關懷和遠大的歷史眼光，難能可貴。
 
　　本書將在2019年10月初印度第39屆世界詩人大會期間首發。
 
　　News letter of the publication of the poetry book “Serpent Embracing Street---A Selection of Poems on Beijing”
 
　　The poetry book “Serpent Embracing Street---A Selection of Poems on Beijing” by Chinese poet Bei Ta, was beautifully published by North Literature and Arts Publishing House in Heilongjiang Province in September of 2019. It consists of around 150 poems and 240 pages. There is attached a long academic essay on Chinese modern Metropolitan poetics written also by Bei Ta.
 
　　All the poems in this book are inspired in Beijing. The author has been living in BJ for more than 1/4 century，during which all his love and hatred, sweetness and bitterness are obviously or obscurely recorded and expressed. Due to the convergence trend of the development of almost all Chinese metropolises, the author’s feelings and experiences about BJ can be shared by people living in other metropolises.
 
　　None of the poems is related to tourism or propaganda, but to profound thoughts, natural sighs and enthusiastic cries of a drop of water in the vast sea of human beings.
 
　　This book of poetry, strictly speaking, is the first Chinese individual poetry book on metropolitan matter in the perspectives of modernist philosophy, aesthetics and poetics.
 
　　 The name of the book consists of three words: “Serpent”, “Embracing” and “Street”, which have the same pronunciation [s] in them. In Chinese characters, they have the same initial consonant, which sounds like some piece of metal falling onto the ground. The cover design is full of creation and connotation. The composing type of the three words are very ingenious with their strokes intertwined with each other, which produces the realm that a serpent is a street or a street is also a serpent. The typesetting of the book is elegant, precise, profuse and pure.
 
　　Today in China, the publication of paper books---especially books of poetry is rather stagnant like in winter, North Literature and Arts Publishing House and its director, Mr. Song Yucheng, deserve our loud applause by going against the stream to publish this book while showing pure affection of humanity and broad historical perspective.