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Arthur Sze Reads Robert Hass

The New Yorker: Poetry

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Arthur z arthur has received the landen literary award, the jackson poetry prize and, in 20 19, the national book award in poetry. i love the compression to this poem of bob hosses, and also how it appears to be about nature, but then it expands and it ends up talking about language," he says. "It is good sometimes for poetry to disenchant us" He continues by reading a poem from the new yorker archive called 'the problem of describing trees'

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