The Ginkgo Light by Arthur Sze (English) Paperback Book

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Arthur Sze incorporates history and science, Native American and Asian perspectives, into a transformative vision.

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"Classically elegant."-The New York Times Book ReviewSze'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 list-laden sequences capture the world's manifold facts one by one, then through discursive commentary exact from them a sense not only of aesthetic order but of universal cause and effect."-Boston Review"Sze...here captures the energy of life in overshadowed daily events....His poems mine everything from geography, history, and biology to philosophy and nature, interweaving them to create a complex and luminous poetic texture....His poetry is an experience of awakening and pleasure that all serious students of contemporary poetry should have." -Library Journal"Whether incorporating nature, philosophy, history, or science, Sze's poems are expansive. They unfold like the time-slowed cinematic recording of a flower's blooming...Sze has a refreshingly original sensibility and style, and he approaches writing like a collagist by joining disparate elements into a cohesive whole." -BooklistA temple near the hypocenter of the atomic blast at Hiroshima was disintegrated, but its ginkgo tree survived to bud and bloom. Arthur Sze extends this metaphor of survival and perseverance to transform the world's factual darkness into precarious splendor. "Each hour teems," Sze writes, as he ingeniously integrates the world's miraculous and mundane-a woodpecker drilling a utility pole or a 1300-year-old lotus seed-into a moving, visionary journey.Mayans charted Venus's motion across the sky,poured chocolate into jars and interred themwith the dead. A woman dips three bowls intohair's fur glaze, places them in a kiln, anticipatesremoving them, red-hot, to a shelf to cool.When samba melodies have dissipated into air,when lights wrapped around a willow have vanished,what pattern of shifting lines leads to Duration?Arthur Sze, one of America's leading poets, is the author of nine books of poetry and translation. He is professor emeritus of creative writing at the Institute of American Indian Arts and just completed a term as Poet Laureate of Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Author Biography

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.

Review

"Classically elegant."--The New York Times Book Review "Sze's list-laden sequences capture the world's manifold facts one by one, then through discursive commentary exact from them a sense not only of aesthetic order but of universal cause and effect." --Boston Review "Sze is uncommonly good at bringing such diverse elements and textures into dialogue with one another, seizing on a resonant musicality that binds even the most surprising words together." --Rain Taxi

Promotional

* Prepub galleys * In-person publicity pitches to key media outlets (New York Times; New York Review of Books; Publishers Weekly; Library Journal) * Featured at regional book conferences through CBSD * Review copies to key literary media (120+) * Full page in inhouse catalog (sent to 13K readers; 5K academics; 1K libraries) * Feature on press website * Sze, as a reader, is in much demand and will be putting together a number of readings in 2009 (TBD) * Direct mailing piece to Sze's extensive list of contacts

Review Quote

"Classically elegant."--The New York Times Book Review "Sze's list-laden sequences capture the world's manifold facts one by one, then through discursive commentary exact from them a sense not only of aesthetic order but of universal cause and effect." --Boston Review "Sze is uncommonly good at bringing such diverse elements and textures into dialogue with one another, seizing on a resonant musicality that binds even the most surprising words together." --Rain Taxi

Description for Sales People

* Arthur is one of the leading poets in America and invited to read in many reading series (public and academic) throughout the country * First Poet Laureate of Santa Fe, New Mexico * Copper Canyon is very dedicated to Sze's poetry and translations--this is the fifth project we've done with him * Sze's been on NPR's "Fresh Air" * Sze's books are well reviewed, including New Yorker, New York Times, all major trade journals, many academic journals * Sze was one of only six American poets invited to the first Chinese-English poetry festival at Yellow Mountain (which inspired images in this book) * Several poems inspired by Native American cultures

Details ISBN155659299X Author Arthur Sze Short Title GINKGO LIGHT Language English ISBN-10 155659299X ISBN-13 9781556592997 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 811.54 Year 2009 Residence US Birth 1950 Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S. Country of Publication United States NZ Release Date 2009-07-16 US Release Date 2009-07-16 UK Release Date 2009-07-16 Pages 96 Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S. Publication Date 2009-07-16 Audience General AU Release Date 2009-09-07 Illustrations Illustrations We've got this

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