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âClassically elegant.ââThe New York Times Book Review
Sze's free verse emphasizes at once how difficult, and how necessary, it is for us to imagine our world as a system whose ecologies and societies require us to care for all their interdependent parts." âPublishers Weekly
âSzeâs list-laden sequences capture the worldâs manifold facts one by one, then through discursive commentary exact from them a sense not only of aesthetic order but of universal cause and effect.ââBoston Review
"Sze...here captures the energy of life in overshadowed daily events....His poems mine everything from geography, history, and biology to philosophy and nature, interweaving them to create a complex and luminous poetic texture....His poetry is an experience of awakening and pleasure that all serious students of contemporary poetry should have." âLibrary Journal
"Whether incorporating nature, philosophy, history, or science, Sze's poems are expansive. They unfold like the time-slowed cinematic recording of a flower's blooming...Sze has a refreshingly original sensibility and style, and he approaches writing like a collagist by joining disparate elements into a cohesive whole." âBooklist
A temple near the hypocenter of the atomic blast at Hiroshima was disintegrated, but its ginkgo tree survived to bud and bloom. Arthur Sze extends this metaphor of survival and perseverance to transform the worldâs factual darkness into precarious splendor. âEach hour teems,â Sze writes, as he ingeniously integrates the worldâs miraculous and mundaneâa woodpecker drilling a utility pole or a 1300-year-old lotus seedâinto a moving, visionary journey.
Mayans charted Venusâs motion across the sky,
poured chocolate into jars and interred them
with the dead. A woman dips three bowls into
hairâs fur glaze, places them in a kiln, anticipates
removing them, red-hot, to a shelf to cool.
When samba melodies have dissipated into air,
when lights wrapped around a willow have vanished,
what pattern of shifting lines leads to Duration?
Arthur Sze, one of Americaâs leading poets, is the author of nine books of poetry and translation. He is professor emeritus of creative writing at the Institute of American Indian Arts and just completed a term as Poet Laureate of Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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