The collection won the 2019 National Book Awardfor Poetry (USA).[2] Judges of the prize praised Sze's "quiet mastery which generates beautiful, sensuous, inventive, and emotionally rich poems."[3]
Contents
"Water Calligraphy"
"Stilling to North"
"No one"
"Westbourne Street"
"Cloud Hands"
"In the Bronx"
"Unpacking a Globe"
"During the Cultural Revolution"
"Traversal"
"The Radiant's"
"Doppler Effect"
"Adamant"
"A woman detonates"
"Python Skin"
"Lichen Song"
"Black Center"
"Under a Rising Moon"
"Light Echoes"
"First Snow"
"Salt cedar"
"Courtyard Fire"
"White Sands"
"Salt Song"
"The plutonium waste"
"Sprang"
1 "Winter Stars"
2 "Hole"
3 "Talisman"
4 "Kintsugi"
5 "Yellow Lightning"
6 "Red-Ruffed Lemur"
7 "This Is the Writing, the Speaking of the Dream"
In her review for The New York Times, Tess Taylor wrote, "This is a poetry of assemblage, where violence and beauty combine and hang on Sze's particular gift for the leaping non sequitur."[5]
Florian Gargaillo of the Colorado Review praised Sze's philosophy represented through strikethroughs, writing, "It is this degree of self-questioning, this wariness of authority in himself and others, that makes Sze such a valuable poet for this moment."[6]
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