Compass Rose (Copper Canyon, 2014), was selected as a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize
“Compass Rose [is] a collection in which the poet uses capacious intelligence and lyrical power to offer a dazzling picture of our inter-connected world.”—Pulitzer Prize finalist announcement
“If only a few books were to survive civilization’s collapse, were to stand as ‘poems of evidence’ that life once flourished, I would hope Arthur Sze’s to be among them.” —AGNI