Books

• The Willow Wind, Rainbow Zenith Press (Berkeley, CA), 1972,
• The Willow Wind: Poems and Translations from the Chinese, Tooth of Time Books (Santa Fe, NM), revised edition 1981.
• Two Ravens, Tooth of Time Books (Guadalupita, NM), 1976,
• Two Ravens: Poems and Translations from the Chinese, revised edition 1984.
• Dazzled, Floating Island Publications (Point Reyes, CA), 1982.
• River River, Lost Roads Publishers (Providence, RI), 1987.
• Archipelago, (Copper Canyon Press, 1995) (Port Townsend, WA).
• The Redshifting Web: Poems 1970-1998, (Copper Canyon Press, 1998).
• Quipu (Copper Canyon Press, 2005).
• The Ginkgo Light (Copper Canyon Press, 2009).
• Chinese Writers on Writing. Ed. Arthur Sze. (Trinity University Press, 2010).

Translations

• The Silk Dragon: Translations of Chinese Poetry (Copper Canyon Press, 2001).

Anthologies

• Articulations: The Body and Illness in Poetry, edited by Jon Mukand, University of Iowa Press (Iowa City, IA), 1994
• Premonitions: The Kaya Anthology of New Asian North American Poetry, edited by Walter Lew, Kaya Production (New York City), 1995
• I Feel a Little Jumpy around You, edited by Naomi Shihab Nye and Paul Janeczko, Simon & Schuster (New York City), 1996
• What Book!?: Buddhist Poems from Beats to Hiphop, edited by Gary Gach, Parallax Press (Berkeley, CA), 1998.

The word 'compassion' is much overused...'clarity' less so...but Arthur Sze is truly a poet of clarity and compassion.

resides somewhere in the intersection of Taoist contemplation, Zen rock gardens and postmodern experimentation.

These poems are complex in thought and perception; in language, however, they have the cool clarity of porcelain. The surface is calm, while the depths are resonant. There is about these poems a sense of inevitability, as though they could not possibly be other than what they are. They move precisely through their patterns like a dancer, guided by the discipline that controls and inspires.