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Arthur Sze. The Glass Constellation
The Glass Constellation. New and Collected Poems
Note to the Reader
Contents
OPENING POEMS FROM The Redshifting Web. 1998. Before Completion. 1
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The String Diamond. 1
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Kaiseki. 1
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Apache Plume. 1 The Beginning Web
2 Reductions and Enlargements
3 The Names of a Bird
4 The Architecture of Silence
5 Hourglass
6 Entelechy
7 Apache Plume
8 Anamnesis
9 Starlight
10 Diffraction Grating
Six Persimmons. 1
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FROM The Willow Wind. 1972. Noah’s / Dove
The Wood Whittler
Li Po
Pegasus on a Pipe
Miracles
The Execution of Maximilian
Sound Lag
Sliding Away
Strawberries in Wooden Bowls
The Olive Grove
A Singer with Eyes of Sand
FROM Two Ravens. 1976. The Taoist Painter
Bruegel
The Silver Trade
He Will Come to My Funeral with a White Flower
Two Ravens
The Waking
North to Taos
Three a.m., in Winter
Lament
No Hieroglyphics
Wang Wei
Morning Shutters
Lupine
Do Not Speak Keresan to a Mescalero Apache
Dazzled. 1982. Viewing Photographs of China
The Moon Is a Diamond
Listening to a Broken Radio. 1
2
Moenkopi
Written the Day I Was to Begin a Residency at the Penitentiary of New Mexico
Gold Leaf
* Dazzled
Magnetized
Knife at the Jugular
Pouilly-Fuissé. 1
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Alba
The Opal
Pentimento
The Weather Shifts
* Juniper Fires
Frost
Black Lightning
Piranhas
Impressions of the New Mexico Legislature
Cedar Fires
The Murmur
The Corona
Olive Night
* The Cloud Chamber
Empty Words
Tsankawi
Antares
The Owl
The Cornucopia
The Chance
The Network
Fauve
Fern, Coal, Diamond
The Axis
River River. 1987. The Leaves of a Dream Are the Leaves of an Onion. 1
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The Aphrodisiac
The Ansel Adams Card
New Wave
Every Where and Every When. 1
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The Rehearsal
Kayaking at Night on Tomales Bay
Mistaking Water Hemlock for Parsley
Evil Grigri
The Pulse
The Diamond Point
Metastasis
Horse Face
The Negative
Wasabi
The Solderer
Renga
Ten Thousand to One
To a Composer
Shooting Star. 1
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The Silence
Keokea
Early Autumn
Nothing Can Heal the Severed Nerves of a Hand?
Splash, Flow
The Moment of Creation
Forget Fez
Shuttle
Throwing Salt on a Path
Edna Bay
Black Java Pepper
The Halibut
Standing on an Alder Bridge over a Creek
Here
Parallax
The Day Can Become a Zen Garden of Raked Sand
The Unnameable River. 1
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Archipelago. 1995. Streamers. 1
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The Silk Road. 1
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Oolong. 1
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In Your Honor
The Flower Path
The Great White Shark
Slanting Light
Red Octopus
Whiteout
Ice Floe
The Los Alamos Museum
Spring Snow
The Redshifting Web. 1
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X-Ray
Rattlesnake Glyph
A Great Square Has No Corners
Axolotl
Mushroom Hunting in the Jemez Mountains
From the Rooftop
The Shapes of Leaves
Original Memory. 1
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Archipelago. 1
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Quipu. 2005
Before Sunrise
Earthshine. 1
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Ox-Head Dot
Syzygy
La Bajada
Spring Smoke
Haircutting
Lobed Bowl with Black Glaze and White Scalloped Rim
Quipu. 1
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Aqueous Gold. 1
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Solstice Quipu
Inflorescence. 1
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Oracle-Bone Script
The Welt
In the Living Room
Acanthus
The Thermos
Ice Line
The Chromatics of Dawn
Thermodynamics
X and O
The Angle of Reflection Equals the Angle of Incidence
Earthstar
Didyma. 1
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The Ginkgo Light. 2009. I. Chrysalis
Labrador Tea
Crisscross
The Gift
Looking Back on the Muckleshoot Reservation from Galisteo Street, Santa Fe
Pig’s Heaven Inn
Retrieval
Tesserae
In the Rose Light
Qualia
The Ginkgo Light. 1
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II. Spectral Line. 1
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III. The Double Helix
Equator
Pinwheel
Power Line
Grand Bay
Departures and Arrivals
Fractal
The North Window
Yardangs
Virga
After Completion. 1
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Compass Rose. 2014. Black kites with outstretched wings circle overhead— After a New Moon
Sticking out of yellow-tongued flames on a ghat, a left foot—
The Curvature of Earth
Begging near a car window, a girl with a missing arm—
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, a naked woman arches and pulls a thorn out of her raised heel—
Available Light. 1
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The Infinity Pool
Strike-Slip
She wrings her hair after stepping out of a bath—
The Immediacy of Heat. 1
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At the Equinox
Returning to Northern New Mexico after a Trip to Asia
Qiviut
Backlit
An aura reader jots down the colors of your seven chakras—
Confetti
Spectral Hues
Windows and Mirrors
Midnight Loon
Point-Blank
The Radius of Touch
A cobra rises out of a straw basket before a man plays a bulbous instrument—
The Unfolding Center. 1
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Sight Lines. 2019. Water Calligraphy. 1
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Stilling to North
—No one could anticipate this distance from Monticello— Westbourne Street
Cloud Hands
In the Bronx
Unpacking a Globe
—During the Cultural Revolution, a boy saw his mother shot by a firing squad— Traversal
The Radiant’s
Doppler Effect
Adamant
—A woman detonates when a spam text triggers bombs strapped to her body— Python Skin. 1
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Lichen Song
Black Center
Under a Rising Moon
Light Echoes
First Snow
—Salt cedar rises through silt in an irrigation ditch— Courtyard Fire
White Sands
Salt Song
—The plutonium waste has been hauled to an underground site— Sprang. 1 Winter Stars
2 Hole
3 Talisman
4 Kintsugi
5 Yellow Lightning
6 Red-Ruffed Lemur
7 This Is the Writing, the Speaking of the Dream
8 Net Light
9 Sprang
—A man who built plutonium triggers breeds horses now— Transfigurations
Dawn Redwood
Xeriscape
The Far Norway Maples
Sight Lines
The Glass Constellation
The White Orchard. NEW POEMS. Circumference
Entanglement. 1
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Eye Exam
Pitch Blue
La Cieneguilla
Ravine
October Dusk
Midnight Flame
Festina lente
Pitch Yellow
Sleepers
Earthrise
Acequia del Llano. 1
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Pyrocumulus
Midnight Spark
Whiteout
Invisible Globe
Pitch Magenta
The White Orchard
Rock Paper Scissors
Trawler
Morning Islands
Blackcap
Cloud Forest
The Open Water. 1
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Transpirations
Notes
About the Author
Books by Arthur Sze
Acknowledgments