The Glass Constellation

Praise for Arthur Sze * - *
Arthur Sze is a treasure and a beacon of a poet, whose indispensable body of work offers no less than ‘a way to navigate this world’. These poems lead us through the intermeshing worlds of matter and spirit, science and instinct, to touch the beating heart of things – Sarah Howe, author of Foretokens
One of our best poets – Charles Simic
Inside these poems of billowing consciousness, we too are alive to a spectrum of wonders * New York Times *
[A] bold vision of the world’s fragility: one of unceasing iridescence and glimmer, even in the face of ecological destruction and dilapidation – Oluwaseun Olayiwola * Guardian *
This book is an overwhelming feast, a treasure, and more than enough proof that Sze is a major poet – Craig Morgan Teicher * NPR *
Moving through human and non-human perspectives, Sze considers nature, time, and interconnectedness, in elegant and utterly arresting language – Megan Robson * Poetry Book Society *
The sureness of Sze’s language and the clarity of his eye present a compelling picture of the world * Publishers Weekly *
[Sze] brings together disparate realms of experience - astronomy, botany, anthropology, Taoism-and observes their correspondences with an exuberant attentiveness * New Yorker *
Sze is a deeply philosophical word scientist; every increment of livingness has weight: history, experience, and sound. The lines move between the microscopic and the cosmic. The poem is a universe of unexpected juxtapositions—a droplet, a lichen, a bird, to create a fresh world – Bollingen Prize Judges 2025
[Arthur Sze] uses capacious intelligence and lyrical power to offer a dazzling picture of our interconnected world – Pulitzer Prize Judges 2015

Arthur Sze is a poet, translator, editor, and the current US Poet Laureate. His poetry has received several awards, including the 2025 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry for Lifetime Achievement, the 2019 National Book Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Lannan Literary Award, and was a 2015 Pulitzer Prize finalist. Sze is a Chancellor Emeritus of the Academy of American Poets and was the first Poet Laureate of Santa Fe, where he lives with his wife, the poet Carol Moldaw.

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