Sze's poetry generates poignant correspondences and startling intimacies, offering readers a deep and daily grounding in the world.

• Sze's most recent collection Sight Lines won the 2019 National Book Award.
  
• Sze is highly critically acclaimed-Compass Rose was a Pulitzer Prize finalist and his other works have received national honors such as the Jackson Poetry Prize and the American Book Award
  
• Copper Canyon has published Sze since the 1990s, with a collection of new and selected poems, numerous collections of original poetry, and a collection of translations from the Chinese.
  
• Sze's writing draws and breaks from Chinese poetry and philosophical tradition. His negotiation of cultural influence and difference has made his work foundational to many Asian American writers.
  
• Sze's work marks a significant contribution to the ecopoetics genre, his writing drawing from indigenous and non-Western lifeworlds and advocating an ethics of deep and transformative notice.
  
• Sze's writing articulates a response to global and environmental injustices, enacting a deep sense of connectivity and collective obligation.
  
• Sze's work is particularly resonant to the Southwest. His previous collection The Ginkgo Light (2009) received the PEN Southwest Book Award and his poetry is imbued with New Mexico's long-line mesas and the many cultures native to the region.