Into the Hush

"""[The Glass Constellation]  is an overwhelming feast, a treasure, and more than enough proof that Sze is a major poet.""―NPR  “[Sze] brings together disparate realms of experience—astronomy, botany, anthropology, Taoism—and observes their correspondences with an exuberant attentiveness.”—The New Yorker “Sze’s is a deeply humanist and erotic sensibility, utilizing an unadorned diction and language steeped in the metaphoric possibilities that exist for us by mere dint of being human.”—Chicago Review “Arthur Sze is a demanding and valuable poet. . . . While the influence of Eastern poetry is usually felt in American poetry as imagism, in Sze's poems, that tradition is present not just as a quality of perception, but of thought—made available to us in all its complexity through a precision of language so refined that it feels like marksmanship.”—Antioch Review “Arthur Sze is not only one of our best poets, he’s now also one of our great translators.”—Charles Simic ""If only a few books were to survive civilization's collapse, were to stand as 'poems of evidence' that life once flourished, I would hope Arthur Sze's to be among them.""—AGNI “Sze’s poetry invokes an ecology, or philosophy, of interconnectedness not unlike the central metaphor of Chinese Huayan Buddhism—the image of Indra’s Net—where all phenomena are single jewels holding within themselves the infinite reflections of every other jewel in existence.”—World Literature Today"