"Everything can happen in the teeming space of a stanza by Arthur Sze; almost everything does. The profane and glorious are never far apart; more often than not they are contained in hte same couplet...Sze specializes in hte serial or linked poem. He specializes in irresoluble contradictions and the simultaneity of their circumstance. He is deft with improbable metamorphoses. He is undeterred from the uninflected actual...All that is teeming is specific and nothing is unrelated...Sze is hyper-awake to a chance that a petal may tip the balance of life; to the fact that we cannot act if we are asleep."
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ISBN:9781556594670
Physical Description:viii, 75 pages ; 23cm. print
Publisher:Port Townsend, Washington :Copper Canyon Press,2014
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Black kites - after a new moon - sticking out - the curvature of earth - begging near - compass rose: 1Arctic Circle - 2fault lines - 3 glimmer train - 4orchid hour - 5the curtain - 62'33" - 7comet Hyakutake - 8morning antlers - 9compass rose - 10red breath - in relief - the infinity pool - strike-slip - she wrings - the immediacy of heat - at the Equinox - returning to Northern New Mexico after a trip to Asia - qiviut - backlit - an aura reader - confetti - spectral hues - windows and mirrors - midnight loon - point-blank - the radius of touch - a cobra rises - the unfolding center - acknowledgements - notes - about the author.
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