Into the Hush
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Copper Canyon Press
Into the Hush
$23.00
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*From the 25th U.S. Poet Laureate*
*Winner of the 2025 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry for Lifetime Achievement*
Finalist for the 2026 PEN / Jean Stein Book Award
Longlisted for the 2025 National Book Critics Circle Award
With imaginative power and emotional force, Into The Hush, from U.S. Poet Laureate Arthur Sze, explores the exigencies of climate change, of endangered cultures, and of our nuclear age.
Like wind on a lake, Arthur Sze's twelfth book of poetry, Into the Hush, extends a language that ripples and stills, widens and deepens. Through an earned and profound simplicity, these poems move with imaginative power and emotional force and gather a startling array of contrasts--from wildfires to a sprig of sunrise, from gunshots to a spirit evoked by swaying candles--to address the challenges of our nuclear age. Here, poems shadow sonnets and appear as haibun and ekphrasis, pantoum and segmented zuihitsu. They borrow the voice of an eraser and the voice of a jaguar. Even the aspen leaves speak. Sze harnesses a range of innovative forms to respond to the challenges of climate change, exploring what it means to live on an endangered planet. Written at the height of his powers, Into the Hush is a landmark publication. Sze enacts a thrilling journey from silence into sound, from emptiness into the rich panoply of existence.
Book Details
- Publisher:
- Copper Canyon Press
- ISBN:
- 9781556597145
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- Pages:
- 88
- Authors:
- Arthur Sze
- Published Date:
- 2025-04-01
- Language:
- English
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I’m currently reading Arthur Sze’s Into the Hush. I figure since he’s the current U.S. Poet Laureate, I better read up on him. He has a unique blend of science, philosophy, and nature which resonates with my mechanical engineering background. I’m attracted to poetry of variation and disruption. So far, I’m enjoying a lot of surprise in the writing, especially when lyric forms (e.g. shadow sonnets, pantoums, and a segmented zuihitsu) follow traditional poetic forms. So far, the poems are richly layered in meaning and feeling. I’m guessing I will return to this book long after I’m done, which seems like a huge reward.