Things as It Is

Poems of balanced wildness and instinctual grace."New York Journal of Books [Twichells poems] open out into a stark, sometimes bewildered clarity. The Washington Post Suppose you had Sapphos passion, the intelligence and perspicacity of Curie, and Dickinsons sweet wit . . . then you would have the poems of Chase Twichell. Hayden Carruth A major voice in contemporary poetry. Publishers Weekly Chase Twichells eighth collection lifts up the joy of the moment while mourning a changing world. In Things as It Ispurposefully not things as they arethe present and past parallel and intermingle. Meditating on a litany of formative moments, Twichells 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.