Research Catalog

Title

Compass Rose / Arthur Sze.

Author

Sze, Arthur

Publication

Port Townsend, Washington : Copper Canyon Press, [2014]

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Details

Additional Authors

Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe

Description

viii, 75 pages; 23 cm

Summary

A child playing a game, tea leaves resting in a bowl, an abandoned dog, a foot sticking out from a funeral pyre, an Afghan farmer pausing as mortars fire at the enemy: in Arthur Sze's tenth book, the world spins on many points of reference, unfolding with full sensuous detail.

Uniform Title

Poems. Selections

Alternative Title

Poems.

Subject

• American poetry > 21st century

Genre/Form

• poetry.
• Poetry
• Poésie.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Black kites -- After a new moon -- Sticking out -- The curvature of earth -- Begging near -- Compass Rose -- 1. Arctic Circle -- 2. Fault Lines -- 3. Glimmer Train -- 4. Orchid Hour -- 5. The Curtain -- 6. 2'33" -- 7. Comet Hyakutake -- 8. Morning Antlers -- 9. Compass Rose -- 10. Red Breath -- In relief -- Available light -- The infinity pool -- Strike-slip -- She wrings -- The immediacy of heat -- At the equinox -- Returning to northern New Mexico after a trip to Asia -- Qiviut -- Backlit -- An aura reader -- Confetti -- Spectral hues -- Windows and mirrors -- Midnight loon -- Point-blank -- The radius of touch -- A cobra rises -- The unfolding center. Language : English

ISBN

• 9781556594670 (pbk.)
• 1556594674 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2013025678

OCLC

852957248

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library