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Arthur Sze was born on 1 December, 1950 in New York, New York, U.S., is an American poet (born 1950). Discover Arthur Sze's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 73 years old?

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Occupation Poet translator writer professor
Age 73 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 1 December, 1950
Birthday 1 December
Birthplace New York, New York, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1950

Arthur Sze (born December 1, 1950) is an American poet, translator, and professor.

Sze is a second-generation Chinese American, born in New York City on December 1, 1950.

His parents initially immigrated to the United States following the Japanese occupation of China, and remained in the U.S. after the Chinese Civil War reignited.

He was raised in Queens and Garden City on Long Island.

1968

Sze graduated from the Lawrenceville School in 1968.

Between 1968 and 1970, Sze attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

1970

In 1970, he transferred to the University of California, Berkeley to pursue poetry.

His poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Conjunctions, The Kenyon Review, Mānoa, The Paris Review, The New Yorker, and the Virginia Quarterly Review, and have been translated into Albanian, Chinese, Dutch, Italian, Romanian, and Turkish.

1972

Since 1972, he has published ten collections of poetry.

1994

He has been included in anthologies such as Articulations: The Body and Illness in Poetry (University of Iowa Press, 1994), Premonitions: The Kaya Anthology of New Asian North American Poetry, (Kaya Production, 1995), I Feel a Little Jumpy around You (Simon & Schuster, 1996), What Book!?: Buddhist Poems from Beats to Hiphop (Parallax Press 1998), and American Alphabets (Oberlin College Press, 2006).

He was a Visiting Hurst Professor at Washington University in St. Louis, a Doenges Visiting Artist at Mary Baldwin College, and has conducted residencies at Brown University, Bard College, and Naropa University.

He is a professor emeritus at the Institute of American Indian Arts, is the first poet laureate of Santa Fe and has won three grants from the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry.

2012

In 2012, Sze was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.

The poet Jackson Mac Low has said: "The word 'compassion' is much overused, 'clarity' less so, but Arthur Sze is truly a poet of clarity and compassion."

Albuquerque Journal reviewer John Tritica: commented that Sze "resides somewhere in the intersection of Taoist contemplation, Zen rock gardens and postmodern experimentation."

Critic R.W. French notes that Sze's poems "are complex in thought and perception; in language, however, they have the cool clarity of porcelain. The surface is calm, while the depths are resonant. There is about these poems a sense of inevitability, as though they could not possibly be other than what they are. They move precisely through their patterns like a dancer, guided by the discipline that controls and inspires."

Sze he lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico with his wife, Carol Moldaw, and their daughter.

Sze also has a son from a previous marriage.

2014

Sze's ninth collection Compass Rose (2014) was a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

He has authored eight books of poetry, including Compass Rose (Copper Canyon Press, 2014).

2015

This latter volume was a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

2019

Sze's tenth collection Sight Lines (2019) won the 2019 National Book Award for Poetry.

Sze was the first Poet Laureate of Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he resides and is a professor emeritus at the Institute of American Indian Arts.