Arthur Sze: 4 books

“Classically elegant.”—The New York Times Book ReviewSze'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...

“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 PostQuipu was a tactile...

2015 Pulitzer Prize finalist"Compass Rose [is] a collection in which the poet uses capacious intelligence and lyrical power to offer a dazzling picture of our inter-connected world."-Pulitzer Prize finalist announcement[Sze] brings together disparate realms of experience-astronomy,...

This collection spans more than a quarter century of published work, including selections from five previous award-winning books, and makes available for the first time the full range of Sze's remarkable poetry. Through the startling juxtaposition of images, Sze reveals the interconnectedness, the interdependency of things and ideas, always with an ear attuned to pitch and cadence.