Arthur Sze in 2004. Photo by Gloria Graham. Licensed under Creative Commons, courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
Arthur Sze (born 1950) is a 2nd-generation Chinese-American poet.
Life[]
Sze was born in New York City and educated at the University of California, Berkeley,
Sze is the author of 8 books of poetry, including The Ginkgo Light (Copper Canyon Press, 2009)[1]
Sze's poems have appeared in the American Poetry Review, Boston Review , Conjunctions, Kenyon Review, Manoa, Paris Review, Field, The New Yorker, and Virginia Quarterly Review.[2] They have been translated into Albanian, Chinese, Dutch, Italian, Romanian, and Turkish.
He has been included in anthologies such as Articulations: The Body and Illness in Poetry (University of Iowa Press, 1994), Premonitions: The Kaya Anthology of New Asian North American Poetry, (Kaya Production, 1995), I Feel a Little Jumpy around You (Simon & Schuster, 1996), What Book!?: Buddhist Poems from Beats to Hiphop (Parallax Press 1998), and American Alphabets (Oberlin College Press, 2006).
He has been a visiting Hurst professor at Washington University, and a Doenges visiting artist at Mary Baldwin College, and has conducted residencies at Brown University, Bard College, and Naropa University. He is a professor emeritus of the Institute of American Indian Arts,
Writing[]
Poet Jackson Mac Low has said: "The word 'compassion' is much overused, 'clarity' less so, but Arthur Sze is truly a poet of clarity and compassion." Albuquerque Journal reviewer John Tritica: commented that Sze "resides somewhere in the intersection of Taoist contemplation, Zen rock gardens and postmodern experimentation." Critic R.W. French notes that Sze's poems "are complex in thought and perception; in language, however, they have the cool clarity of porcelain. The surface is calm, while the depths are resonant. There is about these poems a sense of inevitability, as though they could not possibly be other than what they are. They move precisely through their patterns like a dancer, guided by the discipline that controls and inspires." [3]
Recognition[]
Sze is the 1st poet laureate of Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Awards[]
- Lila Wallace/Reader’s Digest Writers’ Award
- Guggenheim Fellowship,[4]
- American Book Award
- Lannan Literary Award for Poetry,[5]
- 2 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing fellowships
- 3 grants from the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry
- George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation Fellowship
- Western States Book Award for Translation.
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- The Willow Wind, Berkeley, CA: Rainbow Zenith Press, 1972
- revised as The Willow Wind: Poems and translations from the Chinese . Santa Fe, NM: Tooth of Time Books, 1981.
- Two Ravens, Guadalupita, NM: Tooth of Time Books, 1976;
- revised as Two Ravens: Poems and translations from the Chinese. Santa Fe, NM: Tooth of Time Books, 1984.[6]
- Dazzled, Point Reyes, CA: Floating Island Publications, 1982.
- River River, Providence, RI: Lost Roads Publishers, 1987.
- Archipelago, Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1995.
- The Redshifting Web: Poems 1970-1998. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1998.
- Quipu. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2005.
- The Ginkgo Light. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2009.
Translated[]
- The Silk Dragon: Translations of Chinese poetry. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2001.
Edited[]
- I Am Waiting to Be Free: An anthology of women's writing from the Penitentiary of New Mexico. Santa Fe, NM: Koyemsi Press, 1981.[6]
- Cuentos III. 1984.
- Chinese Writers on Writing. San Antonio, TX: Trinity University Press, 2010.[6]
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy the Poetry Foundation.[7]
Arthur Sze Dear Poet 2015
Arthur Sze Dear Poet 2017
Audio / video[]
- Arthur Sze (cassette). Kansas City, MO: University of Missouri, [199-?]
- Frank and Manoa (cassette). Naropa Institute, 1998.
- Passwords : Arthur Sze on Ma Chih-Yuan, Li Ho, and Li Shang-Yin (cassette). New York: Poets House, 1999.
Except where noted, discographical information courtesy WorldCat.[8]
See also[]
References[]
Notes[]
- ↑ Copper Canyon Press
- ↑ VQR
- ↑ R.W. French. "Arthur Sze: "The Redshifting Web: Poems 1970-1998"". http://www.nmculturenet.org/poetry/french/sze_the_redshifting_web.html.
- ↑ Guggenheim Fellowship
- ↑ Arthur Sze, Lannan Foundation
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Search results = au:Arthur Sze, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Mar. 15, 2015.
- ↑ Arthur Sze b. 1950, Poetry Foundation. Web, Dec. 11, 2012.
- ↑ Search results = au:Arthur Sze, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Dec. 3, 2015.
External links[]
- Poems
- "Aqueous Gold". Boston Review. February/March 2004. http://bostonreview.net/BR29.1/sze.html.
- "Looking Back on the Muckleshoot Reservation from Galisteo Street, Santa Fe". The New Yorker. May 26, 2008. http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/poetry/2008/05/26/080526po_poem_sze.
- Arthur Sze b. 1950 at the Poetry Foundation
- Arthur Sze profile & 19 poems at the Academy of American Poets.
- Audio / video
- Arthur Sze at YouTube
- Lunch Poems: Arthur Sze, UCTV, 4-28-08 (30 mins, audio)
- Sze reading at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on 1 April 1997. Video (30 mins)
- Books
- Arthur Sze at Amazon.com
- About
- Arthur Sze at the Lannan Foundation
- "An E-view with Arthur Sze", Rebecca Seiferle, The Drunken Boat
- Etc.
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