“When, under summer stars, you have built a cabin in the wilderness....” In this New Mexico in Focus interview, U.S. Poet Laureate Arthur Sze reads his poem “Anvil,” which appears in his collection Into the Hush (Copper Canyon Press, 2025), and his translation of Tao Qian’s poem “Drinking Wine,” which appears in the anthology Transient Worlds: On Translating Poetry (Copper Canyon Press, 2026) edited by Sze.
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