Into the Hush
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 8 iun 2027
Like wind on a lake, Arthur Sze's twelfth book of poetry, Into the Hush, extends a language that ripples and stills, conjuring a cast of fruit trees and gunshots, butterflies and chemistry, animals and humans. Drawing on a craft honed over decades of writing, these poems earn their profound simplicity, moving with imaginative power and emotional force.
Sze harnesses a range of innovative forms to respond to the challenges of our nuclear age—endangered cultures and the exigencies of climate change—exploring what it means to write on a planet struggling through the Anthropocene, to "make lines/against a void." Here, poems shadow sonnets and appear as haibun, ekphrastic poems, epistles, and twin pantoums. Poems borrow the voice of an eraser and the voice of a jaguar. Even the aspen leaves speak.
Writing at the height of his powers, Into the Hush is a landmark collection. Sze enacts a thrilling journey from silence into sound, from emptiness into the rich panoply of existence. Repeatedly, we find cause for praise.
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Arthur Sze is the twenty-fifth Poet Laureate of the United States and the author of twelve books of poetry, including The Glass Constellation: New and Collected Poems (2021), selected for the 2024 National Book Foundation Science + Literature Prize; Sight Lines (2019), winner of the National Book Award; Compass Rose (2014), a Pulitzer Prize finalist; The Ginkgo Light (2009), winner of the PEN Southwest Book Award and the Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association Book Award; Quipu (2005); The Redshifting Web: Poems 1970–1998 (1998), winner of the Balcones Poetry Prize and the Asian American Literary Award; and Archipelago (1995), winner of an American Book Award. He has also published The Silk Dragon II: Translations of Chinese Poetry (2024), edited Chinese Writers on Writing (2010), and, most recently, The White Orchard: Selected Interviews, Essays, and Poems (Museum of New Mexico Press, 2025).
A recipient of the 2025 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry for Lifetime Achievement, the 2024 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, the 2024 National Book Foundation Science + Literature Prize, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Shelley Memorial Award, the Jackson Poetry Prize, a Lannan Literary Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Lila Wallace–Reader's Digest Writers' Award, two National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships, a Howard Foundation Fellowship, and five grants from the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry, Sze was the first Poet Laureate of Santa Fe, where he lives with his wife, the poet Carol Moldaw.
A Chancellor Emeritus of the Academy of American Poets and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Sze served as the 2023–2024 Mohr Visiting Poet at Stanford University. His poetry has been translated into fifteen languages, including Chinese, Dutch, German, Portuguese, and Spanish. He is Professor Emeritus at the Institute of American Indian Arts.