Into the hush / Arthur Sze.

By:

Sze, Arthur [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Port Townsend, Washington : Copper Canyon Press, [2025]Description: viii, 73 pages ; 26 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781556597145
1556597142

Subject(s):

American poetry

Genre/Form:

Poetry.

Additional physical formats: Online version :: Into the hushDDC classification:

811/.54 23/eng/20240823

LOC classification:

PS3569.Z38 I58 2025

Contents:

Anvil -- Whoo, whoo. An owl -- Spring view -- A melody played -- Among spruce -- Oasis -- Dilemma -- Jaguar song -- Scintillant -- Full moon. Dogs barking -- Vectors -- Architect's watercolor -- Farolitos -- Eraser song -- Dawn branches -- Drought -- Downwind -- In the beginning, I liked -- Into the hush -- Clink: we sipped champagne -- Užupis -- Río Chamita -- Winter solstice -- Papyrus pantoum -- Swimming laps -- Shadow of flames -- Letter to Tao Qian -- Tennis players ran -- Forage. 1. The shore of this day -- 2. Oxbow lakes -- 3. Forage -- 4. Divagation -- 5. Floaters -- 6. Wildfire season -- 7. Against the rubble -- 8. Floaters -- 9. Midsummer -- Hiking a trail -- Leafless -- Morning mist -- Architectures of emptiness -- Fugitive -- Venn diagrams -- Pe'ahi light.

Summary: Like wind on a lake, U.S. Poet Laureate 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 man. 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 against anthropocene, to 'make lines/against a void.' Here poems shadow sonnets and appear as haibun and ekphrastic, epistle 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 publication. Sze enacts a thrilling journey from silence into sound, from emptiness into the rich panoply of existence.

List(s) this item appears in: New Adult Nonfiction

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Adult Book	Phillipsburg Free Public Library	Adult Non-Fiction	New Books	811.54 SZE	Checked out	06/20/2026	36748002650358

Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

*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.

Like wind on a lake, U.S. Poet Laureate 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 man. 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 against anthropocene, to 'make lines/against a void.' Here poems shadow sonnets and appear as haibun and ekphrastic, epistle 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 publication. Sze enacts a thrilling journey from silence into sound, from emptiness into the rich panoply of existence.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

Anvil (3)
Whoo, whoo. An owl (4)
Spring View (5)
A melody played (14)
Among Spruce (15)
Oasis (16)
Dilemma (17)
Jaguar Song (18)
Sdntillant (19)
Full moon. Dogs barking (20)
Vectors (21)
Architect's Watercolor (22)
Farolitos (23)
Eraser Song (24)
Dawn Branches (25)
Drought (26)
Downwind (27)
In the beginning, I liked (28)
Into the Hush (29)
Clink: we sipped champagne (35)
Uzupis (36)
Río Chamita (37)
Winter Solstice (38)
Papyrus Pantoum (39)
Swimming Laps (40)
Shadows of Flames (41)
Letter to Tao Qian (42)
Tennis players ran (43)
Forage
1 The Shore of This Day (44)
2 Oxbow Lakes (45)
3 Forage (46)
4 Divagation (47)
5 Floaters (48)
6 Wildfire Season (49)
7 Against the Rubble (50)
8 Floaters (51)
9 Midsummer (52)
Hiking a trail (53)
Leafless (54)
Morning Mist (55)
Architectures of Emptiness (56)
Fugitive (60)
Venn Diagrams (61)
Pe'ahi Light (62)
Acknowledgments (69)
About the Author (73)