Archipelago

by Arthur Sze

Archipelago was the winner of the 1996 American Book Award in Poetry. By turns spiritual and creative, meditative and active, Archipelago draws upon both Buddhist and Native American art and culture and is inspired by the Zen garden at Ryōan-ji. The fifteen poems, like stones set in a sea of raked gravel, are seen only within the context of a larger interdependence.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1556591004
• ISBN13: 9781556591006
• Release Date: June 1995
• Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
• Length: 90 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Breahtaking

I was given the assignment to read this book of poetry as part of a final exam during a creative writing class, and I absolutely adored it. Sze's poems are beautiful. I could not do them justice in this simple little review. His words are chosen carefully, the sentences ebbing and flowing into one another perfectly. I love going back and reading these poems, looking for something I missed or stumbling upon a gem of a sentence among the pages. Highly recommended!