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Good evening.

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Welcome to the Poetry
Center, and thank

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you so much for being here.

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It's my very great
pleasure and honor, really,

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to introduce Arthur Sze.

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A very brief introduction.

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Arthur Sze has published
10 books of poetry,

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including Sight Lines,
a National Book Award

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finalist, Compass Rose, a
Pulitzer Prize finalist,

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The Ginkgo Light, selected
for the PEN Southwest Book

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Award, The Redshifting
Web, Poems 1970 to 1998,

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selected for the Balcones Poetry
Prize and the Asian American

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Literary Award, and Archipelago,
selected for an American Book

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Award.

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He is also a
celebrated translator

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and released The Silk Dragon,
Translations from the Chinese,

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in 2001, selected for the
Western States Book Award.

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Sze is the recipient
of many honors,

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including the Jackson Poetry
Prize from Poets & Writers,

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a Lannan Literary Award,
a Guggenheim Fellowship,

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two National Endowment for
the Arts Creative Writing

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Fellowships, and the Howard
Foundation Fellowship.

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I could go on and on.

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Instead, I'll simply
say that Sze's work

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is widely admired for its
exquisite layering of tone

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and texture.

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Its attunement to a
plurality of perspectives.

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Its engagement at the spectrum
of sensory experience.

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And its surprising
juxtapositions, oftentimes

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juxtapositions that bring the
disparate into luminous focus.

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Please join me in
welcoming Arthur Sze.

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[APPLAUSE]

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