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July/Aug 2015 • Vol. XXXVII No. 4 • Poetry |

Python Skin

By Arthur Sze

1


Smoke engulfs a boat in a harbor—we motor
 past and recall a flotilla of fishing boats

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Arthur Sze’s latest book is The Glass Constellation: New and Collected Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 2021). He is the recipient of a 2022 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for Lifetime Achievement from the Poetry Foundation and also of the 2021 Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. His expanded edition of translations of Chinese poetry, The Silk Dragon II, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press in the spring of 2024.

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Spectral Lines

By Arthur Sze

1. Who passes through the gates of the four directions? Robin coughs as she tightens a girth, adjusts saddle, and, leading Paparazzo past three stalls, becomes woman-leading-horse-into-daylight. Though the Chu […]

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Didyma

By Arthur Sze

1. Disoriented, a woman wanders in the riverbed east then west then east, asks us how to get to County Road 101G. We stare at vertebrae and long bones that […]

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