The Glass Constellation
New and Collected Poems
Published on 13. April 2021
538 pages
978-1-61932-236-3 (ISBN)
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"This book is an overwhelming feast, a treasure, and more than enough proof that Sze is a major poet." -NPR
National 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 leap into powerful polysemous sequences, honing a distinct stylistic signature that harnesses luminous particulars, and is sharply focused, emotionally resonant, and structurally complex. Fusing elements of Chinese, Japanese, Native American, and various Western experimental traditions-employing startling juxtapositions that are always on target, deeply informed by concern for our endangered planet and troubled species-Arthur Sze presents experience in all its multiplicities, in singular book after book. This collection is an invitation to immerse in a visionary body of work, mapping the evolution of one of our finest American poets.
National 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 leap into powerful polysemous sequences, honing a distinct stylistic signature that harnesses luminous particulars, and is sharply focused, emotionally resonant, and structurally complex. Fusing elements of Chinese, Japanese, Native American, and various Western experimental traditions-employing startling juxtapositions that are always on target, deeply informed by concern for our endangered planet and troubled species-Arthur Sze presents experience in all its multiplicities, in singular book after book. This collection is an invitation to immerse in a visionary body of work, mapping the evolution of one of our finest American poets.
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Arthur Sze has published ten books of poetry, including Sight Lines (2019), which won the National Book Award. His other books include Compass Rose (2014), which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. His poems have been translated into a dozen languages, including Chinese, Dutch, German, Korean, and Spanish. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is a professor emeritus at the Institute of American Indian Arts and was the first poet laureate of Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he lives.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Note to Reader
- Dedication
- Contents
- Opening Poems from The Redshifting Web (1998)
- Before Completion
- The String Diamond
- Kaiseki
- Apache Plume
- 1 The Beginning Web
- 2 Reductions and Enlargements
- 3 The Names of a Bird
- 4 The Architecture of Silence
- 5 Hourglass
- 6 Entelechy
- 7 Apache Plume
- 8 Anamnesis
- 9 Starlight
- 10 Diffraction Grating
- Six Persimmons
- From The Willow Wind (1972)
- Noah's / Dove
- The Wood Whitler
- Li Po
- Pegasus on a Pipe
- Miracles
- The Execution of Maximilian
- Sound Lag
- Sliding Away
- Strawberries in Wooden Bowls
- The Olive Grove
- A Singer with Eyes of Sand
- From Two Ravens (1976)
- The Taoist Painter
- Bruegel
- The Silver Trade
- He Will Come to My Funeral with a White Flower
- Two Ravens
- The Waking
- North to Taos
- Three a.m., in Winter
- Lament
- No Hieroglyphics
- Wang Wei
- Morning Shutters
- Lupine
- Do Not Speak Keresan to a Mescalero Apache
- Dazzled (1982)
- Viewing Photographs of China
- The Moon Is a Diamond
- Listening to a Broken Radio
- Moenkopi
- Written the Day I Was to Begin a Residency at the Penitentiary of New Mexico
- Gold Leaf
- Dazzled
- Magnetized
- Knife at the Jugular
- Pouilly-Fuissé
- Alba
- The Opal
- Pentimento
- The Weather Shifts
- Juniper Fires
- Frost
- Black Lightning
- Piranhas
- Impressions of the New Mexico Legislature
- Cedar Fires
- The Murmur
- The Corona
- Olive Night
- The Cloud Chamber
- Empty Words
- Tsankawi
- Antares
- The Owl
- The Cornucopia
- The Chance
- The Network
- Fauve
- Fern, Coal, Diamond
- The Axis
- River River (1987)
- The Leaves of a Dream Are the Leaves of an Onion
- The Aphrodisiac
- The Ansel Adams Card
- New Wave
- Every Where and Every When
- The Rehearsal
- Kayaking at Night on Tomales Bay
- Mistaking Water Hemlock for Parsley
- Evil Grigri
- The Pulse
- The Diamond Point
- Metastasis
- Horse Face
- The Negative
- Wasabi
- The Solderer
- Renga
- Ten Thousand to One
- To a Composer
- Shooting Star
- The Silence
- Keokea
- Early Autumn
- Nothing Can Heal the Severed Nerves of a Hand?
- Splash, Flow
- The Moment of Creation
- Forget Fez
- Shuttle
- Throwing Salt on a Path
- Edna Bay
- Black Java Pepper
- The Halibut
- Standing on an Alder Bridge over a Creek
- Here
- Parallax
- The Day Can Become a Zen Garden of Raked Sand
- The Unnameable River
- Archipelago (1995)
- Streamers
- The Silk Road
- Oolong
- In Your Honor
- The Flower Path
- The Great White Shark
- Slanting Light
- Red Octopus
- Whiteout
- Ice Floe
- The Los Alamos Museum
- Spring Snow
- The Redshifting Web
- X-Ray
- Rattlesnake Glyph
- A Great Square Has No Corners
- Axolotl
- Mushroom Hunting in the Jemez Mountains
- From the Rooftop
- The Shapes of Leaves
- Original Memory
- Archipelago
- Quipo (2005)
- Before Sunrise
- Earthshine
- Ox-Head Dot
- Syzygy
- La Bajada
- Spring Smoke
- Haircutting
- Lobed Bowl with Black Glaze and White Scalloped Rim
- Quipu
- Aqueous Gold
- Solstice Quipu
- Inflorescence
- Oracle-Bone Script
- The Welt
- In the Living Room
- Acanthus
- The Thermos
- Ice Line
- The Chromatics of Dawn
- Thermodynamics
- X and O
- The Angle of Reflection Equals the Angle of Incidence
- Earthstar
- Didyma
- The Ginkgo Light (2009)
- I
- Chrysalis
- Labrador Tea
- Crisscross
- The Gift
- Looking Back on the Muckleshoot Reservation from Galisteo Street, Santa Fe
- Pig's Heaven Inn
- Retrieval
- Tesserae
- In the Rose Light
- Qualia
- The Ginkgo Light
- II
- Spectral Line
- III
- The Double Helix
- Equator
- Pinwheel
- Power Line
- Grand Bay
- Departures and Arrivals
- Fractal
- The North Window
- Yardangs
- Virga
- After Completion
- Compass Rose (2014)
- Black kites
- After a New Moon
- Sticking out
- The Curvature of Earth
- Begging near
- Compass Rose
- 1 Arctic Circle
- 2 Fault Lines
- 3 Glimmer Train
- 4 Orchid Hour
- 5 The Curtain
- 6 2´33"
- 7 Comet Hyakutake
- 8 Morning Antlers
- 9 Compass Rose
- 10 Red Breath
- In relief
- Available Light
- 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
- Sight Lines (2019)
- Water Calligraphy
- Stilling to North
- No one
- Westbourne Street
- Cloud Hands
- In the Bronx
- Unpacking a Globe
- During the Cultural Revolution
- Traversal
- The Radiant's
- Doppler Effect
- Adamant
- A woman detonates
- Python Skin
- Lichen Song
- Black Center
- Under a Rising Moon
- Light Echoes
- First Snow
- Salt cedar
- Courtyard Fire
- White Sands
- Salt Song
- The plutonium waste
- Sprang
- 1 Winter Stars
- 2 Hole
- 3 Talisman
- 4 Kintsugi
- 5 Yellow Lightning
- 6 Red-Ruffed Lemur
- 7 This Is the Writing, the Speaking of the Dream
- 8 Net Light
- 9 Sprang
- A man who built
- Transfigurations
- Dawn Redwood
- Xeriscape
- The Far Norway Maples
- Sight Lines
- The Glass Constellation
- The White Orchard: New Poems
- Circumference
- Entanglement
- Eye Exam
- Pitch Blue
- La Cieneguilla
- Ravine
- October Dusk
- Midnight Flame
- Festina lente
- Pitch Yellow
- Sleepers
- Earthrise
- Acequia del Llano
- Pyrocumulus
- Midnight Spark
- Whiteout
- Invisible Globe
- Pitch Magenta
- The White Orchard
- Rock Paper Scissors
- Trawler
- Morning Islands
- Blackcap
- Cloud Forest
- The Open Water
- Transpirations
- Notes
- About the Author
- Books by Arthur Sze
- Acknowledgments
- Copyright
- Special Thanks
