Sight Lines

Sight Lines - Paperback

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Sight Lines - Paperback

Sight Lines - Paperback

by Arthur Sze
$16.00
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*From the 25th U.S. Poet Laureate*

*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 Times

From 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, from the last sighting of the axolotl to a man who stops building plutonium triggers, Sight Lines moves through space and time and brings the disparate and divergent into stunning and meaningful focus. In this new work, Arthur Sze employs a wide range of voices--from lichen on a ceiling to a man behind on his rent--and his mythic imagination continually evokes how humans are endangering the planet; yet, balancing rigor with passion, he seizes the significant and luminous and transforms these moments into riveting and enduring poetry.

"These new poems are stronger yet and by confronting time head on, may best stand its tests."―Lit Hub

"The wonders and realities of the world as seen through travel, nature walks, and daily routine bring life to the poems in Sight Lines."―Library Journal
ISBN9781556595592
Author Arthur Sze
PublisherCopper Canyon Press
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedApril 2019
LanguageENG- English
Pages80
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Arthur Sze

Arthur Sze is a poet, translator, and teacher. His twelve books of poetry include The Glass Constellation: New and Collected Poems; Sight Lines, winner of the National Book Award; Compass Rose, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and forthcoming in Spring 2025, Into the Hush (Copper Canyon Press). He is professor emeritus at the Institute of American Indian Arts and was the first poet laureate of Santa Fe. His poems have appeared in publications including The American Poetry Review, The Atlantic, Best American Poetry, Boston Review, Conjunctions, Harper's Magazine, Harvard Review, The Kenyon Review, The Nation, The New Republic, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry, The Yale Review, and Pushcart Prize anthologies. Sze's work has been translated into fifteen languages, and he has given readings internationally in Beijing, Cardiff, Delhi, Havana, Hong Kong, London, Medellín, Paris, Rotterdam, Taipei, and Vilnius. Arthur Sze has lived in New Mexico for over fifty years.

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