Poetry. Quipu was a tactile recording device for the pre-literate Inca, an assemblage of colored knots on cords. In his eighth collection of poetry, Arthur Sze utilizes quipu as a unifying metaphor, knotting and stringing luminous poems that move across cultures and time, from elegy to ode, to create a precarious splendor. Long admired fro his poetic fusion of science, history and anthropology, in QUIPU, Sze's lines and language are taut and mesmerizing, nouns can become verbs--"where is passion that orchids the body"--and what appears solid and stable may actually be fluid and volatile.
Author City: SANTA FE, NM USA
Arthur Sze, one of America's leading poets, is the author of nine books of poetry and translation. He is professor emeritus of creative writing at the Institute of American Indian Arts and just completed a term as Poet Laureate of Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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