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Arthur Sze (born in New York City) is a poet and translator whose work explores the intersection of Eastern and Western cultural and philosophical traditions, landscape, and the nature of perception. He is a professor emeritus at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he was the founding director of the MFA program. His collection Sight Lines (Copper Canyon Press, 2019) won the National Book Award for Poetry. He has received two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, an American Book Award, the Jackson Poetry Prize, and the Lannan Literary Award. His translations of Chinese poetry include The Silk Dragon: Translations from the Chinese (Copper Canyon, 2001).