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Twichell, Chase was born on August 20, 1950 in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Daughter of Charles P. and Ann (Chase) Twichell.
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Vividly realized, emotionally gripping, these poems of Chase Twichell's confront the crucial issue of our times: the death of nature as we have known it. The Adirondacks, with their beauties and dangers, are the setting for many of the poems. They are inhabited by the fox, the bear, the fishercat. One is rabid, another dead, the third a life-sustaining dream. The "ghost" is both the shadow of the paradise we have so carelessly ruined, and the poet herself, from whom the elegy for it is wrenched. These are dark poems, frontal and unflinching, but they are illuminated by the poet's powerful love for the earth, and by the heightened, surprising joys forced from a new intimacy with her own mortality.
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Over the past 25 years, Twichell’s reputation and reach has broadened with each new book. She is a poet whose books are anticipated and consistently receive stellar national review attention: “A major voice in contemporary poetry.”—Publishers Weekly “A poet with a dazzling and profound imagination.”—Library Journal “An extraordinary poet whose lyrics plumb great intellectual and emotional depths.”—The Miami Herald “There is a . . . Zen-like lucidity to Twichell’s poetry.”—The Washington Post Dog Language addresses the Zen question “What is the self?” in the modern age, where individual identity is questioned, medicated, and revised. Chase Twichell’s tightly drawn poems move through the stages of human development and capture the complex emotions and challenges of family and aging. Like the best of artists, Twichell is able to handle common themes and emotions without ever reducing them to cliché or sentiment. She reminds us of “The Rules” she uses in her poems: “Tell the truth. No decoration. Remember death.” In one of the most poignant sections of Dog Language, she writes of her father’s death and asks what, if anything, survives us: From Dog Biscuits After my father’s cremation, my sisters and I agreed to bury him privately when the ground thawed. One will plant a flowering tree, one see to the stone and its cutting, one call the grave-digger and the town clerk. It’ll be just us, the daughters, presiding over ashes that could be any mammal’s, or those of any love dispersible by wind. Chase Twichell is the author of six books of poems and a book of translations and is the co-author of the best-selling guidebook The Practice of Poetry. She taught for several years at Princeton University before starting Ausable Press, a publisher dedicated to contemporary literature. She lives with her husband, the novelist Russell Banks, in the Adirondacks.
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"Reading the poems in The Snow Watcher is like breathing cold air.... they are full of sharp observation, both of the world and herself, unsentimental poems with a sinewy intellectual toughness"—The Washington Post The Snow Watcher is a sequence of poems that asks a single obsession question: what is the self? The book is a radical re-envisioning of what makes us human rather than animal, human rather than insentient. The poems delve into parts of childhood more comfortably forgotten, and into the ancient stillness of the monastery (Twichell is a student of Zen Buddhism). In both realms the known self dissolves, or is intentionally dismantled, and what is left is something impossible to name, though its startling voice can be heard in the austere, near-empty rooms of these poems.
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Twichell, Chase was born on August 20, 1950 in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Daughter of Charles P. and Ann (Chase) Twichell.
Bachelor, Trinity College, Hartford, 1973. Master of Fine Arts, University Iowa, 1976.
Copper Canyon Press, 2010). Additionally, she has received fellowships from both the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including The New Yorker, Field, Ploughshares, The Georgia Review, The Paris Review, Poetry, The Nation, and The Yale Review.
She attended the Foote School in New Haven.
In the Fall 2003 Tricycle magazine interview with Chase, she says, "Zazen and poetry are both studies of the mind. I find the internal pressure exerted by emotion and by a koan to be similar in surprising and unpredictable ways.
lieutenant strains out whatever"s inessential."
Twichell was born in New Haven, Connecticut, and earned her Bachelor of Arts from Trinity College and her Master of Fine Arts from the Iowa Writers" Workshop. She has taught at Princeton University, Warren Wilson College, Goddard College, University of Alabama, and Hampshire College.
(Vividly realized, emotionally gripping, these poems of Ch...)
(Vividly realized, emotionally gripping, these poems of Ch...)
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