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Unpacking a Globe by Arthur Sze

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April 10, 2015
 

Unpacking a Globe

 
Arthur Sze

About This Poem

 

“One day I unpacked a globe out of a cardboard box and looked at different locations on our planet. When I saw ‘Coral Sea,’ I stopped and thought of the Battle of the Coral Sea. The poem sprang out of that moment.”
Arthur Sze

 

Arthur Sze is the author of Compass Rose (Copper Canyon Press, 2014). He is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and a professor emeritus at the Institute of American Indian Arts. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

 

Photo credit: Mariana Cook

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