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  • The Glass Constellation

    New and Collected Poems

    by Arthur Sze ...
    "This book is an overwhelming feast, a treasure, and more than enough proof that Sze is a major poet." —NPRNational Book Award winner Arthur Sze is a master poet, and The Glass Constellation is a triumph spanning five decades, including ten poetry collections and twenty-six new poems. Sze began his career writing compressed, lyrical poems influenced by classical Chinese poetry; he later made a ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • The Silk Dragon II

    Translations of Chinese Poetry

    by Arthur Sze ...
    National Book Award–winner Arthur Sze presents a one-of-a-kind anthology that vividly traces Chinese poetry from its centuries-old lyrical traditions up to the present day.In The Silk Dragon II*,* National Book Award–winning poet Arthur Sze presents a sophisticated vision of the vitality, diversity, and power of the Chinese poetic tradition. Traveling over one and a half millennia, Sze guides ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Best Literary Translations 2026

    by Arthur Sze ...
    Series series Best Literary Translations
    Guest edited by National Book Award winner Arthur Sze, Best Literary Translations 2026  features poetry and prose written in languages both widely spoken and critically endangered, brought into English by some of the most talented translators working today.Compiled from over 450 submissions written in 62 original languages, the third edition of this groundbreaking annual anthology features a ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Silk Dragon

    Translations from the Chinese

    Edited by Arthur Sze ...
    Series series Kage-an Books
    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 by poets who have had a profound effect on Chinese culture, American poetics and Sze's own maturation as an artist. Also included is an informative insightful essay on the methods and processes ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Into the Hush

    by Arthur Sze ...
    *Winner of the 2025 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry for Lifetime Achievement*With imaginative power and emotional force, Into The Hush explores the exigencies of climate change, of endangered cultures, and of our nuclear age.Like wind on a lake, Arthur Sze’s twelfth book of poetry, Into the Hush, extends a language that ripples and stills, widens and deepens. Through an earned and profound ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Sight Lines

    by Arthur Sze ...
    Winner of the 2019 National Book Award“The sight lines in Sze’s 10th collection are just that―imagistic lines strung together by jump-cuts, creating a filmic collage that itself seems to be a portrait of simultaneity.” ―The New York TimesFrom the current phenomenon of drawing calligraphy with water in public parks in China to Thomas Jefferson laying out dinosaur bones on the White House floor, ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Transient Worlds: On Translating Poetry

    Edited by Arthur Sze ...
    Transient Worlds: On Translating Poetry is a personal guide to global poetry in translation by 25th US Poet Laureate Arthur Sze. Focusing on an accessible selection of key works, Sze takes readers through nearly two millennia of poetry from every part of the world, constructing fifteen different “zones" of literary discussion with a critical focus on the artistic dimensions of translation itself. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Quipu

    by Arthur Sze ...
    “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 recording device for the pre-literate Inca, an assemblage of colored knots on cords. In his eighth collection of poetry, Arthur Sze ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • The Ginkgo Light

    by Arthur Sze ...
    “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 list-laden sequences capture the world’s manifold facts one by one, then through discursive commentary exact from them a ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Compass Rose

    by Arthur Sze ...
    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, botany, anthropology, Taoism-and observes their correspondences with an exuberant attentiveness."-The New YorkerA ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The Redshifting Web

    New & Selected Poems

    by Arthur Sze ...
    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. ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • An Archaeology of Architecture

    Photowriting the Built Environment

    by Dennis Tedlock ...
    Page by page, this book takes us on a journey through the built world that ranges from Greece to Guatemala and from New York to San Francisco. Tedlock practices what he calls photowriting, a creative process that brings photographer and writer together in the same person. It may be true enough that a photograph can show more than words can say, but it is equally true that words can say more than a ... Read more

    $33.99 USD