Compass Rose

Compass Rose

<div><p><B>2015 Pulitzer Prize finalist</B><p></p><p>"<I>Compass Rose</I> [is] a collection in which the poet uses capacious intelligence and lyrical power to offer a dazzling picture of our inter-connected world."—Pulitzer Prize finalist announcement</p><p>[Sze] brings together disparate realms of experience—astronomy, botany, anthropology, Taoism—and observes their correspondences with an exuberant attentiveness."—<I>The New Yorker</I></p><p>A child playing a game, tea leaves resting in a bowl, an abandoned dog, a foot sticking out from a funeral pyre, an Afghan farmer pausing as mortars fire at the enemy: in Arthur Sze's tenth book, the world spins on many points of reference, unfolding with full sensuous detail.</p><p><B>Arthur Sze</B> is the author of <I>The Ginkgo Light</I> (2009), <I>Quipu</I> (2005), and <I>The Redshifting Web</I> (1998). He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.</p><BR></div>