The Glass Constellation - New and Collected Poems

**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 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.

About the author

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.

Summary

**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 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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  "The recognition was long overdue when Sze won the 2019 National Book Award for his previous book, Sight Lines. This 500-page, career spanning retrospective is a fitting follow up, allowing readers to take in the full breadth of what Sze has achieved over ten collections published since the early 1970s... This book is an overwhelming feast, a treasure, and more than enough proof that Sze is a major poet." —NPR, "Glimmers of Hope: A 2021 Poetry Preview"
  
  "A monumental collection from a poet whose lasting importance should now be recognized; essential for dedicated readers of contemporary American poetry."—Library Journal, starred review
  
  "In the case of poet Arthur Sze, 'master' is no misnomer... Sze as poet has been continually searching for new ways of making poetry alive, to make way for the breathing infrastructure of the poem in all its fragility and rigor. As a result of his dynamic poetic efforts, the map of human consciousness will have grown more detailed." —Kyoto Journal Review
  
  “Arthur Sze writes with a quiet mastery which generates beautiful, sensuous, inventive, and emotionally rich poems. Sight Lines unfurls like ink in water, circulating through meditations on the natural world; the pleasure and associational depth of eating food; and the profound constitutions of self through memory, human relationships, and experience of the actual world. A keen awareness arises of structural, environmental, and social threats in the midst of this expansive beauty.”—National Book Award, judges’ citation, 2019
  
  “This is a poetry of assemblage, where violence and beauty combine and hang on Sze’s particular gift for the leaping non sequitur… Inside these poems of billowing consciousness, we too are alive to a spectrum of wonders.”— The New York Times
  
  “A collection in which the poet uses capacious intelligence and lyrical power to offer a dazzling picture of our interconnected world.”—Pulitzer Prize, finalist announcement, 2015
  
  “Everything can happen in the teeming space of a stanza by Arthur Sze; almost everything does… Sze is hyper-awake to a chance that a petal may tip the balance of life; to the fact that ‘we cannot act if we are asleep.’”—Jackson Poetry Prize, judges’ citation, 2013
  
  

Product details

• Authors: Arthur Sze, Sze Arthur
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.04.2021
• EAN: 9781556596216
• ISBN: 978-1-55659-621-6
• No. of pages: 560
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Poetry, Relating to Asian American people, POETRY / American / Asian American & Pacific Islander, Poetry / Poems