{"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.co.nz\/products\/into-the-hush-by-arthur-sze-9781556597145","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}