The Redshifting Web

by Sze, Arthur

• ISBN13: 9781556590887
• ISBN10: 1556590881
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-05-01
• Publisher: Copper Canyon Pr

Summary

Sze is one of the most intensely musical and visionary poets writing today. "The Redshifting Web" spans more than a quarter of a century's worth of his published work and makes available for the first time the full range of his poetry.

Table of Contents

Before Completion	p. 3
The String Diamond	p. 13
Kaiseki	p. 23
Apache Plume: 1 The Beginning Web	p. 35
Apache Plume: 2 Reductions and Enlargements	p. 36
Apache Plume: 3 The Names of a Bird	p. 37
Apache Plume: 4 The Architecture of Silence	p. 38
Apache Plume: 5 Hourglass	p. 39
Apache Plume: 6 Entelechy	p. 40
Apache Plume: 7 Apache Plume	p. 41
Apache Plume: 8 Anamnesis	p. 42
Apache Plume: 9 Starlight	p. 43
Apache Plume: 10 Diffraction Grating	p. 45
Six Persimmons	p. 46
Noah's / Dove	p. 55
The Wood Whittler	p. 56
Li Po	p. 57
Miracles	p. 58
The Execution of Maximilian	p. 59
Sound Lag	p. 60
Sliding Away	p. 61
Strawberries in Wooden Bowls	p. 62
The Olive Grove	p. 63
A Singer with Eyes of Sand	p. 64
The Taoist Painter	p. 67
Brueghel	p. 68
The Silver Trade	p. 69
He will Come to my Funeral with a White Flower	p. 70
The Waking	p. 71
North to Taos	p. 72
Three A.M., in Winter	p. 73
Lament	p. 74
Wang Wei	p. 75
Morning Shutters	p. 76
Lupine	p. 77
Do not Speak Keresan to a Mescalero Apache	p. 78
Viewing Photographs of China	p. 81
The Moon is a Diamond	p. 83
Listening to a Broken Radio	p. 84
Moenkopi	p. 85
Written the Day I was to Begin a Residency at the State Penitentiary	p. 86
June Ghazal	p. 88
Dazzled	p. 91
Magnetized	p. 92
Knife at the Jugular	p. 93
Pouilly-Fuisse	p. 95
Alba	p. 96
The Opal	p. 97
Pentimento	p. 98
The Weather Shifts	p. 99
Juniper Fires	p. 103
Frost	p. 104
Black Lightning	p. 105
Piranhas	p. 106
Impressions of the New Mexico Legislature	p. 107
Cedar Fires	p. 108
The Murmur	p. 109
The Corona	p. 110
Olive Night	p. 111
The Cloud Chamber	p. 115
Empty Words	p. 116
Tsankawi	p. 117
Antares	p. 118
The Owl	p. 119
The Cornucopia	p. 120
The Chance	p. 121
The Network	p. 122
Fauve	p. 123
Fern, Coal, Diamond	p. 124
The Axis	p. 125
The Leaves of a Dream are the Leaves of an Onion	p. 129
The Aphrodisiac	p. 135
The Ansel Adams Card	p. 136
New Wave	p. 138
Every Where and Every When	p. 139
The Rehearsal	p. 142
Kayaking at Night on Tomales Bay	p. 143
Mistaking Water Hemlock for Parsley	p. 144
Evil Grigri	p. 145
The Pulse	p. 146
The Diamond Point	p. 147
Metastasis	p. 148
Horse Face	p. 149
The Negative	p. 150
Wasabi	p. 152
The Solderer	p. 153
Renga	p. 154
Ten Thousand to One	p. 155
To a Composer	p. 156
Shooting Star	p. 157
The Silence	p. 161
Keokea	p. 162
Early Autumn	p. 163
Nothing can Heal the Severed Nerves of a Hand?	p. 164
Splash, Flow	p. 165
The Moment of Creation	p. 166
Forget Fez	p. 167
Shuttle	p. 168
Throwing Salt on a Path	p. 169
Edna Bay	p. 170
Black Java Pepper	p. 171
The Halibut	p. 172
Standing on an Alder Bridge over a Creek	p. 173
Here	p. 174
Parallax	p. 175
The Day can Become a Zen Garden of Raked Sand	p. 176
The Unnamable River	p. 177
Streamers	p. 181
The Silk Road	p. 189
Oolong	p. 197
In Your Honor	p. 209
The Flower Path	p. 211
The Great White Shark	p. 213
Slanting Light	p. 214
Red Octopus	p. 215
Whiteout	p. 216
Ice Floe	p. 217
The Los Alamos Museum	p. 218
Spring Snow	p. 219
The Redshifting Web	p. 223
X Ray	p. 237
Rattlesnake Glyph	p. 238
A Great Square has no Corners	p. 239
Axolotl	p. 240
Mushroom Hunting in the Jemez Mountains	p. 241
From the Rooftop	p. 242
The Shapes of Leaves	p. 243
Original Memory	p. 247
Archipelago	p. 253
Notes	p. 263
About the Author	p. 267
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