Thu, Apr 24
|Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse
Arthur Sze, Into the Hush and The White Orchard: Selected Interviews, Essays, and Poems
Winner of the 2025 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry for Lifetime Achievement. With imaginative power and emotional force, Into The Hush explores the exigencies of climate change, of endangered cultures, and of our nuclear age. In The White Orchard, a poet’s creative process comes to light.
Date, Time & Location
Apr 24, 2025, 6:00 PM MDT
Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
Arthur Sze will be introduced by and be in conversation with Ryo Yamaguchi, the publisher of Copper Canyon Press.
Join us in-store or register to watch on Zoom here.
Order Into the Hush ($23, hardcover, publishes April 1) online from CWB here and The White Orchard ($29.95, hardcover, publishes April 1) online here or call the store to order (505) 988-4226. Signed copies will be available after the event.
Into the Hush (Copper Canyon Press)
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 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…