Arthur Sze, Author . Copper Canyon $15 (88p) ISBN 978-1-55659-226-3
Quipu are knotted cords used for record-keeping in Inca civilization, and, Sze reminds us, by the ancient Chinese. As in earlier work, Sze (The Redshifting Web
) weaves together details from nature (especially from New Mexico, where he lives),...
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Arthur Sze, Author . Copper Canyon $15 (69p) ISBN 978-1-55659-299-7
Sze's sparkling ninth collection is largely obsessed with people, animals, plants and planets, caught in moments that suggest (without exactly revealing) their place in a cosmic order. In the first poem, “a praying mantis on the floor...
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Arthur Sze, Author Copper Canyon Press $12 (86p) ISBN 978-1-55659-100-6
Like the water between islands, Sze's poems inhabit the space between declaration and question (one of his strategies is to end a declarative sentence with a question mark), as if claiming the territory in between the observer's consciousness and...
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Arthur Sze, Author Copper Canyon Press $17 (267p) ISBN 978-1-55659-088-7
Spare and declarative, Sze's poems make an indirect case for the connectedness of ideas and objects, of cultural past and personal present. In ""Viewing Photographs of China"" the poet accurately characterizes his modus operandi: ""And instead of...
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Arthur Sze. Copper Canyon (Consortium, dist.), $16 trade paper (76p) ISBN 978-1-55659-467-0
Known for his ambitious and dazzling array of subject matter, Sze (The Gingko Light) exhibits a contemplative, image-based poetics in his ninth collection. Sze achieves a truly present tense in this book, weaving scenes of small, precise, and...
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Edited and trans. from the Chinese by Arthur Sze. Copper Canyon, $18 trade paper (104p) ISBN 978-1-55659-707-7
Sze (The Glass Constellation) provides essential context in the preface of this admirable “mini-anthology,” explaining that previous anthologies of Chinese poetry “tend to focus either on poems written in classical Chinese up to 1919 or on poems...
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