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Arthur Sze

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Arthur Sze

Arthur Sze has published eleven books of poetry, including The Glass Constellation: New and Collected Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 2021), which received a 2024 National Book Foundation Science + Literature Award, and Sight Lines, which received the 2019 National Book Award for Poetry....

His latest book is a collection of translations, The Silk Dragon II: Translations of Chinese Poetry (Copper Canyon, 2024). Sze is the recipient of many honors, including a 2022 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, a Shelley Memorial Award, and the Jackson Poetry Prize. He is a professor emeritus at the Institute of American Indian Arts and lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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Articles by Arthur Sze

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In Your Room
By Wang Jiaxin
Poet Wang Jiaxin considers the self and its private and public reflections. The poem appears in The Silk Dragon II: Translations of Chinese Poetry, edited and translated by Arthur Sze and published by Copper Canyon Press.
Translated from Chinese by Arthur Sze