Quipu

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"Sze brings together disparate realms of experience--astronomy, botany, anthropology, Taoism-and observes their correspondences with an exuberant attentiveness."- The New Yorker "Sze's poems seem dazzled and haunted by patterns."- The Washington Post Quipu was a tactile recording device for the pre-literate Inca, an assemblage of colored knots on cords. In his eighth collection of poetry, Arthur Sze utilizes quipu as a unifying metaphor, knotting and stringing luminous poems that move across cultures and time, from elegy to ode, to create a precarious splendor.;Note to the Reader; Dedication; Epigraph; Before Sunrise; Earthshine; Ox-Head Dot; Syzygy; La Bajada; Spring Smoke; Haircutting; Lobed Bowl with Black Glaze and White Scalloped Rim; Quipu; Aqueous Gold; Solstice Quipu; Inflorescence; Oracle-Bone Script; The Welt; In the Living Room; Acanthus; The Thermos; Ice Line; The Chromatics of Dawn; Thermodynamics; X and O; The Angle of Reflection Equals the Angle of Incidence; Earthstar; Didyma; Notes; About the Author.