Into the Hush
Into the Hush by Arthur Sze, published by Copper Canyon Press in 2025, is a collection of poetry that delves into pressing contemporary issues such as climate change and endangered cultures. This edition comprises 88 pages and is presented in English. The poems in this twelfth book showcase Sze’s imaginative power and emotional depth, employing a variety of forms to explore the complexities of our nuclear age.
Readers will find that Sze’s work moves fluidly between contrasting images, from wildfires to moments of tranquility, reflecting on the challenges faced in today’s world. The collection features innovative poetic structures, including sonnets, haibun, and pantoums, allowing for a rich exploration of existence and the environment. Into the Hush invites contemplation on what it means to inhabit an endangered planet, making it a significant contribution to contemporary poetry.
Official synopsis Publisher
*Winner of the 2025 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry for Lifetime Achievement*
With imaginative power and emotional force, Into The Hush 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.
Author
Publisher
Topics
FAQ
What is “Into the Hush” about?
Who is the author of “Into the Hush”?
When was “Into the Hush” published?
What is the ISBN for “Into the Hush”?
What are the book details (language, pages, edition)?
