Arthur Sze

The poet extends the metaphor of a ginkgo tree that survived the atomic blast at Hiroshima to explore the meaning of survival and perseverance.

"In a bold departure from her portraiture, acclaimed photographer Mariana Cook turns her eye to overlooked surroundings found close at hand. Cook set herself the task of making one photograph every day. The resulting work is a tribute to the art of looking closely. It is a celebration of form and transformation, a warm and thankful awareness of the world around us. It is impossible to resist these intimate images - a single egg, bands of light on a carpeted floor, a child's feet in the sand - or to remain unaffected by the subtle poignancy of the familiar made mysterious. Unadorned and pure, these pictures offer a welcome respite from the cacophony of our restless, distracted, too busy lives. They remind us to slow down, take note, and breathe."--Jacket.

"For quite a few years now, readers have been asking me, Who is the new Phil Dick? Who'll be the Zelazny of this generation? Where are the next Frederik Pohl, the replacement for Robert Sheckley, the Damon Knight of the new millennium? Who's writing stuff like they did in the Golden Age—stuff that surprises and delights me with new, unexpected ways of looking at the universe, new ways of telling a story, new ways of thinking? It is nice to have at least one answer: they're in Australia, and their name is Damien Broderick."—Spider Robinson, author of Very Hard Choices and Callahan's Crosstime Saloon.In a career spanning five decades, Damien Broderick has shown a tendency to think and then re-think his ideas, often going back and re-writing, revising and updating what some readers would call classics. His first-published novel Sorcerer's World appeared in 1970 and was revised and expanded as The Black Grail in 1986. The Dreaming Dragons (1980), Ditmar Award winner and runner-up for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, was re-published in 2001 as The Dreaming. In 1984, in Australia, he published a mainstream novel, Transmitters, which was given a special award by the Ditmar Award committee. The book saw extremely limited circulation outside of Australia. Quipu, appearing for the first time as an E-Reads publication, is a complete re-imagining and re-execution of the earlier work, retaining some elements of the communal living set-up of the original but completely re-casting the characters, the creative milieu and the physical setting and creating a unique and wonderfully original look at a set of characters striving for their own independence, both socially and spiritually, while wrestling with the practicalities of making their way in the world, pursuing their personal ideals and finding an emotional stability as a "family" of genius-level one-of-a-kind individuals.

Some reviewers have called COMPASS ROSE a sequel to SPARTINA. In a way it is, but it stands on its own--it can be read as a self-contained novel. There are some of the same characters as in SPARTINA, but COMPASS ROSE is from the point of view of three forceful women, each with her own voice.

When it came to choosing the wrong man, Jane Elliott had written the book. So from now on, Jane had decided that when it came to untamable men, her policy was "hands-off." Only problem was, she hadn't counted on how irresistible Cade Bravo's hands would be—not to mention the rest of him....As for Cade, gambler and bad boy extraordinaire, he always went after what he wanted—and he wanted Jane. And she wanted him, regardless of whether she thought it was sensible or not. Oh, he figured her head was saying no—but weren't her heart and body screaming yes?

"The Silk Dragon presents the vitality, diversity, and power of the Chinese poetic tradition, ranging from such Tang dynasty masters as Wang Wei, Li Po, and Tu Fu to contemporary poets Wen I-to and Yen Chen. Although Sze calls translation an "impossible task," his introduction nevertheless provides a unique glimpse into exactly how he translates a poem - from the first rough, literal draft to the finished poem."--BOOK JACKET.

"With more than half the works appearing in English for the first time, this is the first collection that brings together material by writers reflecting on their work, processes, and challenges of writing under China's political system"--Provided by publisher.

"The Unfolding Center" is a collaboration between visual artist Susan York and poet Arthur Sze. For this project, York has created 11 diptychs comprised of 22 densely layered graphite drawings, which are interleaved with Sze's extended polyvocal poem.

"From the current phenomenon of drawing calligraphy with water in public parks in China to Thomas Jefferson laying out dinosaur bones on the White House floor, from the last sighting of the axolotl to a man who stops building plutonium triggers, Sight Lines moves through space and time and brings the disparate and divergent into stunning and meaningful focus. In this new work, Arthur Sze employs a wide range of voices--from lichen on a ceiling to a man behind on his rent--and his mythic imagination continually evokes how humans are endangering the planet; yet, balancing rigor with passion, he seizes the significant and luminous and transforms these moments into riveting and enduring poetry.

The setting is twelfth-century Iceland. It is a world of conflict within conflict: Christian against pagan, father against son, brother against brother. And in the tough, impassioned Bjarni, who reflects both the violence and the poetry of this primal land, we have a hero congruent with his time. Fleeing his country-unwilling to bear the yoke of his father's ferocious domination-Bjarni steal the boat upon which his family's survival depends, enlists the help of his younger brothers, and sets sail for the Norway of the Vikings, stirred by the legends of their strength and courage.