Arthur Sze, GPC 2006-2007
Arthur
Sze is the author of nine books of poetry: The
Ginkgo Light (2009),
Quipu (2005), TheSilk Dragon: Translations from
the Chinese (2001), The
Redshifting Web: Poems 1970-1998 (1998), and Archipelago (1995), all from
Copper Canyon Press, as well as River
River (Lost Roads, 1987), Dazzled
(Floating Island, 1982), Two
Ravens (1976; revised edition, Tooth of Time, 1984), and The Willow Wind (1972;
revised edition, Tooth of Time, 1981). He is also the editor of Chinese Writers on Writing
(University Press, 2010). His poems have appeared internationally in such
publications as The American
Poetry Review, The
Georgia Review, Harvard Magazine, The Iowa
Review, The Kenyon Review, The New Yorker, Atlas
(New Delhi), Carnet de Route
(Paris), Dim Sum
(Hong Kong), Kyoto Journal, Raster
(Amsterdam), Unitas
(Taipei), The First
Chinese-English Poetry Festival (Huangshan Mountain, China), and
others. His poems have been translated into Albanian, Bosnian, Chinese, Dutch,
Italian, Romanian, Spanish, and Turkish. He was poet laureate of Santa Fe from
2006-2008 and is the recipient of a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writers’ Award
(1998-2000), an Asian American Literary Award (1999), a John Simon Guggenheim
Memorial Foundation Fellowship (1997), two National endowment for the Arts
Creative Writing fellowships (1982, 1993), and a Western States Book Award for
Translation (2002), among many others. He was a Visiting Hurst Professor at
Washington University (2005), a Doenges Visiting Artist at Mary Baldwin College
(2004-2005), and has conducted residencies at Brown University, Bard College,
Naropa University, and the University of Utah. He is a professor emeritus at
the Institute of American Indian Arts and lives with his family in Santa Fe,
New Mexico.
Additional Links:
“The Silk Road.” Thing.net.
“Streamers.” Thing.net.
“An Interview with
Arthur Sze.” Elshtain, Eric P. Chicago
Review. Dec. 22, 2004.
Bio and links to “Looking Back
on the Muckleshoot Reservation from Galisteo Street, Santa Fe,” “Slanting
Light,” “Spring Snow,” “The Shapes of Leaves” poets.org
Bio and links to 17 poems
including “Edna Bay,” “Parallax,” and “The Waking,” Poetry Foundation
“The Owl.” Famous Poets and Poems.
“Lunch Poems” Reading at
University of California, Berkeley. Youtube.com.