From the archives of the Port Townsend Writers Conference, a reading by the poet Arthur Sze, given at the 1998 Conference.
Born in New York City in 1950, Arthur Sze is a second-generation Chinese American. Educated at the University of California, Berkeley, Sze is the author of eight books of poetry, including The Ginkgo Light (Copper Canyon Press, 2009), Quipu (2005),The Redshifting Web: Poems 1970-1998(1998), and Archipelago (1995). Other collections include River River (1987), Dazzled (1982), Two Ravens (1976; revised, 1984), andThe Willow Wind (1972; revised, 1981).
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