Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Circumscribing Here

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Circumscribing Here




A review by Maryanne Hannan Fifty years before the publication of Arthur Sze's The Ginkgo Light, a Hollywood movie, If It's Tuesday, It Must Be Belgium, satirized a group of tourists rushing through Europe with neither depth nor perception. Sze, a second-generation Chinese-American poet and translator with ten books to his credit, the recipient of numerous major literary prizes, Professor Emeritus at the Institute of American Indian Arts in New Mexico, is thoughtful, erudite, the antithesis of shallow; reading his poetry, I sometimes felt like one of those frazzled tourists. I wanted a guidebook or at least a toehold purchase of his company.

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