Sight Lines
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Author | Arthur Sze |
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Cover artist | Eve Aschheim |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | Poetry |
Publisher | Copper Canyon Press |
Publication date | April 9, 2019 |
Media type | Print (paperback) |
Pages | 80 |
Awards | National Book Award for Poetry (2019) |
ISBN | 978-1-55659-559-2 |
OCLC | 1050955727 |
811/.54 | |
LC Class | PS3569.Z38 A6 2019 |
Sight Lines is the tenth poetry collection by Arthur Sze. It was published by Copper Canyon Press in April 9, 2019.[1]
The collection won the 2019 National Book Award for Poetry (USA).[2] Judges of the prize praised Sze's "quiet mastery which generates beautiful, sensuous, inventive, and emotionally rich poems."[3]
Contents[]
- "Water Calligraphy"
- "Stilling to North"
- "No one"
- "Westbourne Street"
- "Cloud Hands"
- "In the Bronx"
- "Unpacking a Globe"
- "During the Cultural Revolution"
- "Traversal"
- "The Radiant's"
- "Doppler Effect"
- "Adamant"
- "A woman detonates"
- "Python Skin"
- "Lichen Song"
- "Black Center"
- "Under a Rising Moon"
- "Light Echoes"
- "First Snow"
- "Salt cedar"
- "Courtyard Fire"
- "White Sands"
- "Salt Song"
- "The plutonium waste"
- "Sprang"
- 1 "Winter Stars"
- 2 "Hole"
- 3 "Talisman"
- 4 "Kintsugi"
- 5 "Yellow Lightning"
- 6 "Red-Ruffed Lemur"
- 7 "This Is the Writing, the Speaking of the Dream"
- 8 "Net Light"
- 9 "Sprang"
- "A man who built"
- "Transfigurations --
- "Dawn Redwood"
- "Xeriscape"
- "The Far Norway Maples"
- "Sight Lines"
- "The Glass Constellation"
Reception[]
Publishers Weekly called it "finely crafted and philosophical".[4]
In her review for The New York Times, Tess Taylor wrote, "This is a poetry of assemblage, where violence and beauty combine and hang on Sze's particular gift for the leaping non sequitur."[5]
Florian Gargaillo of the Colorado Review praised Sze's philosophy represented through strikethroughs, writing, "It is this degree of self-questioning, this wariness of authority in himself and others, that makes Sze such a valuable poet for this moment."[6]
References[]
- ^ "Sight Lines by Arthur Sze". Copper Canyon Press. Retrieved July 25, 2020.
- ^ "National Book Awards 2019". www.nationalbook.org.
- ^ "Sight Lines". www.nationalbook.org.
- ^ "Poetry Book Review: Sight Lines by Arthur Sze". Publishers Weekly. April 15, 2019. Retrieved July 25, 2020.
- ^ Taylor, Tess (April 26, 2019). "Four New Poetry Collections Confront Despair With Wonder". The New York Times. Retrieved July 25, 2020.
- ^ Gargaillo, Florian. "Sight Lines". Colorado Review. Retrieved July 25, 2020.
- 2019 poetry books
- American poetry collections
- Copper Canyon Press books
- National Book Award for Poetry winning works