Into the Hush

<A new collection and first UK publication from the multiple award-winning American poet<<
Arthur 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.

Turning his attention to habitat destruction, language extinction, mortality and so much more,
Sze 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.

Attuned to the underlying network that connects all things, <>

About the author

Arthur Sze is a poet, translator, editor and the current US Poet Laureate. His poetry has received several awards including the 2025 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry for Lifetime Achievement, the 2019 National Book Award, 2015 Pulitzer Prize finalist, a Guggenheim Fellowship, Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize and Lannan Literary Award. Sze is a chancellor emeritus of the Academy of American Poets and was the first Poet Laureate of Santa Fe, where he lives with his wife, the poet Carol Moldaw.

Product details

• Authors: Arthur Sze, Sze Arthur
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 29.01.2026
• EAN: 9781837312252
• ISBN: 978-1-83731-225-2
• No. of pages: 80
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 198 mm x 5 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Poetry, POETRY / American / General, POETRY / Subjects & Themes / General, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Poetry by individual poets, Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards), Relating to Asian American people, Narrative theme: Environmental issues / the natural world, Modern and contemporary poetry / poems