A comprehensive collection by one of the most intensely musical and visionary poets writing today. Winner of awards from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment of the Arts, among others, Sze (Archipelago, Copper Canyon, 1995) is a second-generation Chinese American poet who has taught for more than a decade at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe. This volume includes selections from his previous five books plus a generous assortment of new poems. Sze's poetry may well be far too elusive for those demanding a poem to mean as well as be. In one poem, we are encouraged to "cultivate private languages," and in another a "broken radio" is preferred over the TV news. As Sze characterizes his method: "you knock the/ gyroscope off the axis of spinning,/ so that one orientation in the world vanishes/ and the others appear infinite." These "other" orientations often yield a bewildering kaleidoscope of images that challenge coherence, though Sze helps some by suggesting that "the mind magnetizes/ everything it touches. A knife in a dog/ has nothing to do/ with the carburetor of an engine: to all appearances,/ to all appearances." Not for everyone, but libraries with good modern poetry collections should consider.?Thomas F. Merrill, Univ. of Delaware Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. Alba The Ansel Adams Card Antares Apache Plume; 1. The Beginning Web Apache Plume; 10. Diffraction Grating Apache Plume; 2. Reductions And Enlargements Apache Plume; 3. The Names Of A Bird Apache Plume; 4. The Architecture Of Silence Apache Plume; 5. Hourglass Apache Plume; 6. Entelechy Apache Plume; 7. Apache Plume Apache Plume; 8. Anamnesis Apache Plume; 9. Starlight The Aphrodisiac Archipelago The Axis Axolotl Before Completion Black Java Pepper Black Lightning Brueghel Cedar Fires The Chance The Cloud Chamber The Cornucopia The Corona The Day Can Become A Zen Garden Of Raked Sand Dazzled The Diamond Point Do Not Speak Keresan To A Mescalero %apache Early Autumn Edna Bay Empty Words Every Where And Every When Evil Grigri The Execution Of Maximilian Fauve Fern, Coal, Diamond The Flower Path Forget Fez From The Rooftop Frost A Great Square Has No Corners The Great White Shark The Halibut He Will Come To My Funeral With A White Flower Here Horse Face Ice Floe Impressions Of The New Mexico Legislature In Your Honor June Ghazal Juniper Fires Kaiseki Kayaking At Night On Tomales Bay Keokea Knife At The Jugular Lament The Leaves Of A Dream Are The Leaves Of An Onion: 1 The Leaves Of A Dream Are The Leaves Of An Onion: 2 The Leaves Of A Dream Are The Leaves Of An Onion: 3 The Leaves Of A Dream Are The Leaves Of An Onion: 4 The Leaves Of A Dream Are The Leaves Of An Onion: 5 The Leaves Of A Dream Are The Leaves Of An Onion: 6 Li Po Listening To A Broken Radio The Los Alamos Museum Lupine Magnetized Metastasis Miracles Mistaking Water Hemlock For Parsley Moenkopi The Moment Of Creation The Moon Is A Diamond Morning Shutters The Murmur Mushroom Hunting In The Jemez Mountains The Negative The Network New Wave Noah's/dove North To Taos Nothing Can Heal The Severed Nerves Of A Hand? The Olive Grove Olive Night Oolong The Opal Original Memory The Owl Parallax Pentimento Piranhas Pouilly-fuisse The Pulse Rattlesnake Glyph Red Octopus The Redshifting Web The Rehearsal Renga The Shapes Of Leaves Shooting Star Shuttle The Silence The Silk Road The Silver Trade A Singer With Eyes Of Sand Six Persimmons Slanting Light Sliding Away The Solderer Sound Lag Splash, Flow Spring Snow Standing On An Alder Bridge Over A Creek Strawberries In Wooden Bowls Streamers: 1 Streamers: 2 Streamers: 3 Streamers: 4 Streamers: 5 Streamers: 6 The String Diamond The Taoist Painter Ten Thousand To One Three A.m., In Winter Throwing Salt On A Path To A Composer Tsankawi The Unnamable River Viewing Photographs Of China The Waking Wang Wei Wasabi The Weather Shifts Whiteout The Wood Whittler Written The Day I Was To Begin A Residency At The State Penitentiary X Ray -- Table of Poems from Poem Finder® Arthur Sze is the author of nine books of poetry and translation. He is emeritus professor of Creative Writing at the Institute of American Indian Arts, former poet laureate of Santa Fe, and a corresponding editor for Manoa. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Used Book in Good Condition