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1. Chinese Writers on Writing (The
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2. The Ginkgo Light
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3. The Redshifting Web: New &
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4. Close at Hand
 
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5. River River (Lost Roads)
 
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6. Mercury Rising: Featuring Contemporary
 
7. Willow Wind: Translations from
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8. Archipelago
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9. Silk Dragon
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10. Quipu
11. Kenyon Review Summer 2010
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12. Biography - Sze, Arthur C. (1950-):
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13. Institute of American Indian Arts
 
14. The Willow Wind
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15. Jungle Planet: And Other New Stories
 
16. Dazzled
 
17. Asian Pacific American Journal
 
18. THE VIRGINIA QUARTERLY REVIEW
 
19. The Silk Road
 
20. Two Ravens

1. Chinese Writers on Writing (The Writer's World)
Paperback: 320 Pages (2010-03-23)
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As the United States and China move toward an expansion of political and economic relations, interest in China and its culture has never been greater. Chinese Writers on Writing makes a contribution in illuminating this corner of the globe through the works of some of its finest writers. With more than half the works appearing in English for the first time, Chinese Writers on Writing features authors such as Mo Yan, whose book Red Sorghum was made into an award-winning movie by the same name; Lu Xun, known as the Chinese George Orwell; and Gao Xingjian, recipient of the 2000 Nobel Prize for Literature. Edited by award-winning poet Arthur Sze, this is the first collection that brings together material by writers reflecting on their work, their processes, and the challenges of writing under China’s political system. This is the fifth volume in the highly acclaimed Writer’s World Series.
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2. The Ginkgo Light
by Arthur Sze
Paperback: 96 Pages (2009-06-01)
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“Classically elegant.”—The 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." —Publishers Weekly

“Sze’s list-laden sequences capture the world’s 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.”—Boston 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." —Library 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." —Booklist

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 world’s factual darkness into precarious splendor. “Each hour teems,” Sze writes, as he ingeniously integrates the world’s miraculous and mundane—a woodpecker drilling a utility pole or a 1300-year-old lotus seed—into a moving, visionary journey.

Mayans charted Venus’s motion across the sky,
poured chocolate into jars and interred them
with the dead. A woman dips three bowls into
hair’s 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 America’s 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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3. The Redshifting Web: New & Selected Poems
by Arthur Sze
Paperback: 250 Pages (1998-05-01)
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Asin: 1556590881
Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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4-0 out of 5 stars The world in a grain of sand
If you don't know Sze's work, this is a good place to start, and if you do it's a fine "Best of" collection with a few new poems added.I liked it a great deal, and kept picking it up and rereading some of the poems.However, Sze isn't one of my favorite poets, and after some thoughtI finally decided why.He belongs to the school of poets (both Western andEastern) who see everything in the universe as interconnected and everypart, from a dragonfly to a planet, as emblematic of the whole.In some ofhis more recent poems, I felt that he just presented lengthy lists ofobjects or events (however memorably described) and left it up to thereader to make the connection between them.While often the result can beenlightening, for me this sometimes injected too much intellectual effortinto the process of appreciating a poem -- which, to my way of thinking,should be more like a lightning flash that illuminates the whole landscape. Also, the specificity of some of his allusions troubled me.He'll brieflymention an event that loomed large in local news, so I (as a local) willhave an intense reaction to it -- but does he expect someone from (say)Dubuque to have as strong a reaction?Which reaction did he intend when hementioned that event, and how does that affect the way a reader"takes" the whole poem?Again, his ex-wife is a well-known Hopiweaver;does knowing about this emotional connection change the way youread some of his allusions to Hopi beliefs?At one point he mentions herpulverizing bugs in a blender -- is the reader supposed to think that she'spracticing a refined form of cruelty to insects, or are we expected torecognize that she's making cochineal dye?(He provides footnotes, butthey're mostly translations of local Spanish words he uses.)In short, ismy "local knowledge" something he calculated into the poem, or isit getting in the way of the effect he really wants?With a poet who'smore explicit about what he/she expects you to "get" from thepoem, the issue doesn't arise for me, but in this style of poetry I findhis reticence rather confusing.Still, this collection is well worthreading and thoroughly enjoyable.

5-0 out of 5 stars Sze goes where and whenhe pleases
Arthur Sze introduces the reader to an original way of thinking embodied in the the old Hua Yen school of Buddhism.Hua Yen (Kegon in Japan) believes all places and times exist in all other places and times.Eventsare a reflection of an infinite set of dimensions -- each one relfelcted inthe other.The "Redshifting Web" a collection of Sze's poetryhas the sensibility of infinite dimension universal life, not a commonperspective in any poet.If your are interested in this viewpoint youshould look into the "Flower Ornament Scripture" a tanslation ofa Buddhist sutra by Thomas Cleary.Another poet with a similar, but morezen/dadistic-inspired vista is Takahashi in "The of Triumph of theSparrow."If you want to see and hear more ---Sze is your man.

The mouse has a white eye where the river rages not far from the orangeon your table...

5-0 out of 5 stars Sze goes where and whenhe pleases
Arthur Sze introduces the reader to an original way of thinking embodied in the the old Hua Yen school of Buddhism.Hua Yen (Kegon in Japan) believes all places and times exist in all other places and times.Eventsare a reflection of an infinite set of dimensions -- each one relfelcted inthe other.The "Redshifting Web" a collection of Sze's poetryhas the sensibility of infinite dimension universal life, not a commonperspective in any poet.If your are interested in this viewpoint youshould look into the "Flower Ornament Scripture" a tanslation ofa Buddhist sutra by Thomas Cleary.Another poet with a similar, but morezen/dadistic-inspired vista is Takahashi in "The of Triumph of theSparrow."If you want to see and hear more ---Sze is your man.

The mouse has a white eye where the river rages not far from the orangeon your table... ... Read more


4. Close at Hand
by Mariana Cook, Arthur Sze
Hardcover: 128 Pages (2007-10-01)
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"These photographs burn in the retina and then in the body and mind. They unfold with uncanny and luminous elegance."—from the Introduction by Arthur Sze

In a bold departure from her traditional portraiture, acclaimed photographer Mariana Cook turns her eye to the lovely, overlooked world found close at hand. Beginning January 1, 1999, one year before the new millennium, Cook set herself the task of taking one very serious photograph every day, forcing her to look anew at everything surrounding her. The resulting work is a passionate celebration of looking closely. This is not a diary or self-interested exhibition, rather it is a celebration of form and transformation, a warm and thankful awareness of the world around us. It is impossible to resist these tender images—a child's feet in the sand, bands of light on the living room floor, a single glistening oyster—or to remain unaffected by the subtle poignancy of the familiar made mysterious. 96 duotone photographs. ... Read more

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5-0 out of 5 stars An Inspring and Beautiful Book!
I have known Mariana Cook, and her photography, for many years.This book is filled with subtle and delicate images.. The images reveal the beauty that is around us always... if we will only take the time to look and experience what we encounter every day.This elegant book will inspire you to see the world, and your day-to-day surroundings, in a new way.

5-0 out of 5 stars Incomparable Beauty
Mariana Cook has understood the deeply authentic beauty in the most quotidian of objects, scenes, and actions. A bird flying, a stack of pancakes, a hand -- all captured in exquisite angles, shapes, and sensitivity. Would that every photo were seen by writers, actors, and performers of every professional inclination -- learn the fun and surprises of beauty too seldom observed as she does with such mastery. ... Read more


5. River River (Lost Roads)
by Arthur Sze
 Paperback: 60 Pages (1987-10)
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6. Mercury Rising: Featuring Contemporary Poetry from Taiwan
 Paperback: 210 Pages (2003-06)
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7. Willow Wind: Translations from the Chinese and Poems
by Arthur Sze
 Paperback: 69 Pages (1982-06)
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8. Archipelago
by Arthur Sze
Paperback: 86 Pages (1995-06-01)
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Arthur Sze has constructed a complicated tapestry of poemsinformed by his Chinese American heritage, his rich knowledge ofAmerican Indian culture, and classical Chinese poetry. Telling youabout his background, influences, and ideas falls pretty far short ofthe mark, though. These poems succeed at the level of execution, infinding just the right words to suggest, say, a Zen sensibility, whileusing contemporary American English to describe the complicatedinterplay between the natural and constructed worlds. From "TheRedshifting Web": "You may draw a cloud pattern in cement /setting in a patio, or wake to / sparkling ferns melting on awindowpane. / The struck, plucked, bowed, blown / sounds of the worldcome and go." ... Read more

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5-0 out of 5 stars Breahtaking
I was given the assignment to read this book of poetry as part of a final exam during a creative writing class, and I absolutely adored it. Sze's poems are beautiful. I could not do them justice in this simple little review. His words are chosen carefully, the sentences ebbing and flowing into one another perfectly. I love going back and reading these poems, looking for something I missed or stumbling upon a gem of a sentence among the pages. Highly recommended! ... Read more


9. Silk Dragon
Paperback: 156 Pages (2001-06-01)
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Arthur Sze has rare qualifications when it comes to translating Chinese: he is an award-winning poet who was raised in both languages. A second-generation Chinese-American, Sze has gathered over 70 poems that have had a profound effect on both American poetics and Sze's own maturation as an artist. His anthology features poets who have become literary icons to generations of Chinese readers and scholars. Here are the quiet nature poems ofLi Ching Chao alongside the remorseful exile poems of Su Tung-p'o. Also included is an informative insightful essay on Sze's methods and processes of translating ideogramic poetry. ... Read more


10. Quipu
by Arthur Sze
Paperback: 88 Pages (2005-09-01)
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“Sze brings together disparate realms of experience—-astronomy, botany, anthropology, Taoism—and observes their correspondences with an exuberant attentiveness.”—The New Yorker

“Sze’s poems seem dazzled and haunted by patterns.”—The Washington Post

Quipu was a tactile recording device for the pre-literate Inca, an assemblage of colored knots on cords. In his eighth collection of poetry, Arthur Sze utilizes quipu as a unifying metaphor, knotting and stringing luminous poems that move across cultures and time, from elegy to ode, to create a precarious splendor.

Revelation never comes as a fern uncoiling
a frond in mist; it comes when I trip on a root,
slap a mosquito on my arm. We go on, but stop
when gnats lift into a cloud as we stumble into
a bunch of rose apples rotting on the ground.

Long admired for his poetic fusions of science, history, and anthropology, in Quipu, Sze’s lines and language are taut and mesmerizing, nouns can become verbs—“where is passion that orchids the body?”—and what appears solid and -stable may actually be fluid and volatile.

A point of exhaustion can become a point of renewal:
it might happen as you observe a magpie on a branch,
or when you tug at a knot and discover that a grief
disentangles, dissolves into air. Renewal is not
possible to a calligrapher who simultaneously
draws characters with a brush in each hand;
it occurs when the tip of a brush slips yet swerves
into flame . . .

Arthur Sze is the author of eight books of poetry and a volume of translations. He is the recipient of an Asian American Literary Award, a Lannan Literary Award, and fellowships from the Witter Bynner Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He teaches at the Institute of American Indian Arts and lives in New Mexico.

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4-0 out of 5 stars Another winner from Sze.
Arthur Sze, Quipu (Copper Canyon, 2005)

I've heard the name Arthur Sze bandied about by folks in the know for a lot of years now, but is one of that vast band of poets whom I'd never actually got round to reading, and decided this was the year. Quipu had the best title, so I started there. A fine decision, as it turns out, if an entirely arbitrary one.

Sze's palette of interests, obsessions, and symbols is about as wide-reaching as Ezra Pound's, so if you don't have an encyclopedia in your head, you may want to have one handy. Sze does provide some notes at the end of the book, which can be helpful at times, but probably not enough for most folks. Or you can take an alternative approach: just let yourself get lost in the language, and if you still feel like looking up quinoa at the end, go ahead. Those of you who are not cooks and/or watchers of the Food Network will be able to at least get the idea that you're dealing with food, since Sze has his quinoa "simmer[ing] in a pot; the aroma of cilantro/on swordfish; the cusp of spring when you//lean your head on my shoulder." (from the wonderfully titled "The Angle of Reflection Equals the Angle of Incidence") As long as you're satisfied with gathering that quinoa is food, and don't need to go scurrying off to the dictionary, you can sit back and just take in the way the syllables twist, float, and play off one another in that small passage (and the poem whence it comes). It's one of the many gems to be found in this lovely book, which, if you haven't yet read, you should. ****
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11. Kenyon Review Summer 2010
by Caitlin Horrocks, Amit Majmudar, Bonnie Nadzam, Peter Phillip Reese, Gretchen E. Henderson, Lewis Hyde, Arthur Sze, Meghan O'Rourke, Anna Journey, John Smelcer
Kindle Edition: Pages (2010-06-10)
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The Summer 2010 issue of The Kenyon Review features an essay by Lewis Hyde, fiction by Amit Majmudar, and poems by Meghan O'Rourke, Anna Journey and Arthur Sze. ... Read more


12. Biography - Sze, Arthur C. (1950-): An article from: Contemporary Authors Online
by Gale Reference Team
Digital: 4 Pages (2005-01-01)
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13. Institute of American Indian Arts Faculty: Allan Houser, Elizabeth Woody, Fritz Scholder, Charlene Teters, Arthur Sze, Linda Lomahaftewa
Paperback: 42 Pages (2010-09-15)
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Chapters: Allan Houser, Elizabeth Woody, Fritz Scholder, Charlene Teters, Arthur Sze, Linda Lomahaftewa, Louis W. Ballard. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 41. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Allan Houser ( June 29, 1914 - August 22, 1994) was one of the most renowned Native American painters and Modernist sculptors of the 20th century. Born of the Fort Sill Apache Tribe, a Chiricahua Apache tribe in Oklahoma, Houser's work can be found at the United Nations building in New York City, at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. and in other public buildings throughout the U.S. capital. From humble beginnings came a man who took on two of the great conversations of his time the Native American experience, and the challenges posed by abstract modernism and forged a new way of seeing both visions. Born in 1914 to Sam and Blossom Haozous on the family farm in Apache, Oklahoma near Fort Sill, Native American artist Allan Houser was the first member of his family from the Warm Springs Chiricahua Apache tribe born outside of captivity since Geronimos 1886 surrender and the tribe's imprisonment by the U.S. government. The tribe had been led in battle by the legendary spiritual leader Geronimo, who would later rely on his grandnephew Sam Haozous, Allans father, to serve as his translator. In 1934, Houser left Oklahoma at the age of 20 to study at Dorothy Dunn's Art Studio at the Santa Fe Indian School in New Mexico. A groundbreaking instructor in Native American arts, Dunn's method combined a strict formalism with a deep and abiding interest in stylized Native iconography. For the latter, Houser had a rich history upon which to draw and made hundreds of drawings and canvasses in Santa Fe and was one of Dunn's top students. In 1939, Houser began his professional career by showing ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=4437034 ... Read more


14. The Willow Wind
by Arthur Sze
 Paperback: Pages (1972-01-01)

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15. Jungle Planet: And Other New Stories From The Pacific, Asia, and the Americas (Manoa: Pacific Journal of International Writing)
Paperback: 204 Pages (2004-11-30)
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16. Dazzled
by Arthur Sze
 Paperback: Pages (1982-12)
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Isbn: 9993007366
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17. Asian Pacific American Journal Vol. 5, No. 2fall/winter 1996
by Arthur; John Yau (ed) Sze
 Paperback: Pages (1996)

Asin: B000KHC7DQ
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18. THE VIRGINIA QUARTERLY REVIEW Vol. 82 No. 1 (Winter 2006)
by Ted, Editor (Art Spiegelman, Steve Almond, Eric Campbell, Billy Collins, Albert Goldbarth, Marilyn Hacker, Dave Lucas, Lisa Williams, Arthur Sze, Lawrence Wechsler,Charles Wright, et al) GENOWAYS
 Hardcover: Pages (2006)

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19. The Silk Road
by Arthur Sze
 Paperback: Pages (1992)

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20. Two Ravens
by Arthur Sze
 Paperback: Pages (1976-01-01)

Asin: B000VJ83UO
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