Synopses & Reviews
Arthur Sze is one of the most intensely musical and visionary poets writing today The Redshifting Web spans more than a quarter-century of published work and makes available for the first time the full range of his poetry. It includes selections from five previous books (including the entirety of Archipelago, Dazzled, and River, River), as well as a generous selection of new poems.
Through a startling juxtaposition of images and ideas, Sze reveals the interconnectedness, the interdependency of things and ideas, always with an ear attuned to pitch and cadence. In his poetry, the past is ever-present, so that one finds Zen monks carrying fax machines, Hopi kachina dolls alongside Japanese pachinko parlors, plastic bowls among relics of the Han dynasty, the complexities of contemporary culture revealed as an elegant fabric woven of many threads.
Synopsis
A comprehensive collection by one of the most intensely musical and visionary poets writing today.
About the Author
Arthur Sze is the author of nine books of poetry and translation. He is emeritus professor of Creative Writing at the Institute of American Indian Arts, former poet laureate of Santa Fe, and a corresponding editor for Manoa. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Table of Contents
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 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 unnamable river --