- New Arrivals
Fiction- Historical FictionCrime & ThrillersMysteryScience-FictionFantasyPoetryRomanceChildren’s BooksYoung Adult
- Biographies & MemoirsHistoryCurrent AffairsTech & ScienceBusinessSelf-DevelopmentTravelThe ArtsFood & WineReligion & SpiritualitySportsHumor
Children’s BooksListsBlogGift CardsMy ListsGames- About & Help
- About Tertulia
- Membership & Co-Ownership
- Shipping & Delivery
- Orders & Payments
- Contact Support
- Send App Feedback
- Follow us
- Download the app
The co-op bookstore for avid readers
Sight Lines
Reader Score
77%
77% of readers
recommend this book
Critic Reviews
Great
Based on 8 reviews on
Winner:National Book Award -Poetry (2019)
Sze, in drawing connections between the pastoral and the catastrophic, speaks to a contemporary condition in which we are constantly fragmented and made whole again as we are presented with a saturation of narratives. In his scenes of the quotidian, musings on life and death, and traversals between the natural and the artificial, Sze opens us to multitudinous lines of sight.
Book Details
- Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
- Publish Date: Apr 9th, 2019
- Pages: 80
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.50in - 6.60in - 0.50in - 0.35lb
- EAN: 9781556595592
- Categories: • American - Asian American & Pacific Islander• Subjects & Themes - Animals & Nature• Subjects & Themes - Religious
About the Author
Arthur Sze is a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a National Book Award winner, and recipient of fellowships from Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Critics’ reviews
Praise for this book
"[Sze] brings together disparate realms of experience-astronomy, botany, anthropology, Taoism-and observes their correspondences with an exuberant attentiveness."-The New Yorker
"Sze's is a deeply humanist and erotic sensibility, utilizing an unadorned diction and language steeped in the metaphoric possibilities that exist for us by mere dint of being human."-Eric P. Elshtain, Chicago Review
"Arthur Sze is a demanding and valuable poet... While the influence of Eastern poetry is usually felt in American poetry as imagism, in Sze's poems, that tradition is present not just as a quality of perception, but of thought-made available to us in all its complexity through a precision of language so refined that it feels like marksmanship."-Jacqueline Osherow, Antioch Review
"Sze's free verse emphasizes at once how difficult, and how necessary, it is for us to imagine our world as a system whose ecologies and societies require us to care for all their interdependent parts."-Publishers Weekly
"Sze's is a deeply humanist and erotic sensibility, utilizing an unadorned diction and language steeped in the metaphoric possibilities that exist for us by mere dint of being human."-Eric P. Elshtain, Chicago Review
"Arthur Sze is a demanding and valuable poet... While the influence of Eastern poetry is usually felt in American poetry as imagism, in Sze's poems, that tradition is present not just as a quality of perception, but of thought-made available to us in all its complexity through a precision of language so refined that it feels like marksmanship."-Jacqueline Osherow, Antioch Review
"Sze's free verse emphasizes at once how difficult, and how necessary, it is for us to imagine our world as a system whose ecologies and societies require us to care for all their interdependent parts."-Publishers Weekly