Transient Worlds: On Translating Poetry

Transient Worlds: On Translating Poetry is a personal guide to global poetry in translation by 25th US Poet Laureate Arthur Sze. Focusing on an accessible selection of key works, Sze takes readers through nearly two millennia of poetry from every part of the world, constructing fifteen different zones"e; of literary discussion with a critical focus on the artistic dimensions of translation itself....