{"title":"Arthur Sze","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArthur Sze\u003c\/strong\u003e invites readers into a world where language and landscape intertwine with profound subtlety. His works, such as \u003cem\u003eInto the Hush\u003c\/em\u003e, explore the delicate balance between the natural world and human perception, offering a contemplative journey through art and culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThese writings resonate with those drawn to poetic reflection and the quiet rhythms of life. Sze’s collection is ideal for readers seeking a thoughtful engagement with the mysteries of existence through evocative and finely crafted prose.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"into-the-hush-by-arthur-sze-9781837312252","title":"Into the Hush","description":"A new collection and first UK publication from the Poet Laureate of the United States\n\nArthur Sze has long been renowned for his constellation of vision and generous imagination - able to hold the aspen leaf and the mountain range, the water droplet and the crashing surf in the same stunning poetic field.\n\nTurning his attention to habitat destruction, language extinction, mortality and so much more, Into the Hush sketches a world slipping into silence, asking what we lose to it, what emerges, and what can be held in its aperture.\n\nSze draws together a startling array of imagery in these quietly forceful poems that render our complex universe with profound simplicity and clarity. Sze's lyric voice - which at times inhabits the body of a jaguar and even an eraser - moves between chaos and stillness with supple agility, challenging our notions of traditional poetic forms such as the haibun, zuihitsu, sonnet and pantoum to break open new avenues of expression that speak to our fragmented world.\n\nAttuned to the underlying network that connects all things, Into the Hush charts a thrilling journey from silence into sound, from emptiness into the rich possibilities of existence.","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47288525062380,"sku":"9781837312252","price":30.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/c8a98c5be89aff6d65c25df32e76cb74.jpg?v=1770630142"},{"product_id":"into-the-hush-by-arthur-sze-9781556597145","title":"Into the Hush","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFrom the 25th U.S. Poet Laureate\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWinner of the 2025 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry for Lifetime Achievement\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFinalist for the 2026 PEN \/ Jean Stein Book Award\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLonglisted for the 2025 National Book Critics Circle Award\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith imaginative power and emotional force, \u003cem\u003eInto the Hush\u003c\/em\u003e, from U.S. Poet Laureate Arthur Sze, explores the exigencies of climate change, endangered cultures, and our nuclear age.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLike wind on a lake, Arthur Sze's twelfth book of poetry, \u003cem\u003eInto the Hush\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHere, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWritten at the height of his powers, \u003cem\u003eInto the Hush\u003c\/em\u003e is a landmark publication. Sze enacts a thrilling journey from silence into sound, from emptiness into the rich panoply of existence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47486135435500,"sku":"9781556597145","price":34.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9be0f2ee60b8166dcbe9d648cd4b0fb3.jpg?v=1775780353"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/collections\/arthur-sze.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}