My first attack with the poetry of ...

My first attack with the poetry of Arthur Sze was in the now inoperative journal Countermeasures. The poem, titled "Six Persimmons," (1) strike one as beinged to me to be a consummate balance between the surreal and the rational, brace forms of thought that we are many times forced to reconcile in face of a world that refuses to make intellect despite our best efforts. In this thinking principle Sze is a deeply humanist bard And his poems are aids in constructing what Aristotle calls "universal event" This interview is a testament to Sze's principled care: his care about verse and about how poetry