"Poems of balanced wildness and instinctual grace."—
New York Journal of Books
“[Twichell’s poems] open out into a stark, sometimes bewildered clarity.” —
The Washington Post
“Suppose you had Sappho’s passion, the intelligence and perspicacity of Curie, and Dickinson’s sweet wit . . . then you would have the poems of Chase Twichell.” —Hayden Carruth
“A major voice in contemporary poetry.” —
Publishers Weekly
Chase Twichell’s eighth collection lifts up the joy of the moment while mourning a changing world. In
Things as It Is
—purposefully not things as they are—the present and past parallel and intermingle. Meditating on a litany of formative moments, Twichell’s clear-as-a-bell voice delivers visceral and emotionally resonant lyrics, elegies, and confessions.
From “What the Trees Said”:
The trees have begun to undress.
Soon snow will come to bandage the whole wounded world.
When I was young I eloped with the sky. I wore blue-black, with under-lit ribbons of pink . . .
Chase Twichell
, a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Twichell has published seven previous poetry collections, including
Horses Where Answers Should Have Been
, which received the 2011 Kingsley Tufts Award. For ten years, she owned and operated Ausable Press.