The Glass Constellation: New and Collected Poems
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Winner of the 2024 National Book Foundation Science Literature Award "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 traditionsemploying startling juxtapositions that are always on target deeply informed by concern for our endangered planet and troubled speciesArthur 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.
