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The Snow Watcher is a sequence of poems that asks a single obsession 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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Altars
Animal Languages
Architecture
Arsonist And Fireman
Bees
The Black Triangle
Cat And Mirror
Cloud Of Unknowing
Decade
Disturbances Of Thought
Eleven Hours
Erotic Energy
Girl Riding Bareback
Glimpse
Hologram
Horse
The Horse-angel
Hunger For Something
Icicle
Ignorant Poem
Imaginary Dokusan: Autumn Rain
Imaginary Dokusan: Barking Dog
Imaginary Dokusan: Furnace
Imaginary Dokusan: Perfume
Imaginary Dokusan: Rat
Imaginary Dokusan: Stranger
Imaginary Dokusan: Thistle
Ink Stone
The Innocent One
Kerosene
Kid Music
A Last Look Back
Lilacs Again
Little Yellow Flowers
The Lost Birds
Makeshifts
Minor Problems
Mistake
Mountains And Rivers
My Skeleton
My Taste For Trash
My Toshiba
Mystery
Paint
Passing Clouds
Pine
Private Airplane
Roach Holder, Circa 1967
Road Tar
Saint Animal
Secrets
Silver And White Elegy
Snow
Solo
Stirred Up By Rain
Stone Steps
Stray
Summer Rain
Tea Mind
To The Reader: Blunt Elegy
To The Reader: If You Asked Me
To The Reader: Polaroids
To The Reader: The Language Of The Cloud
To The Reader: Twilight
Today's Lapses
Tulip
The Verge
Violence To Language
Visitors
The Voice Of The Air
Walking Meditation
The Wars
Weightless, Like A River
White Pine
Wild Mare
The Year I Got Rid Of Everything
Zaven, Wired & Tired
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For a certain current of American poetry, spare language and deliberate pacing imply zazen, the Buddhist discipline of seated meditation. Twitchell (The Ghost of Eden) draws on that tradition in this fifth collection, while deliberately pulling lyric and memory into the meditative state. Where Gary Snyder might be loosely rhapsodic or Lucien Stryk tautly ruminative, Twitchell is after a middle ground, and the result is often a compelling human tension. Forays into childhood memories acknowledge autobiographical discomfort: "It was autumn, the adult word for fall./ In school we saw a film called Reproduction./ The little snake-father poked his head/ into the slippery future,/ and a girl with a burned tongue was conceived." Other poems turn everyday thinkings-out-loud?at the window, the mower, the mirror?into sculpted meditations, or track the difficulties of stilling her restless mind ("I'm bad at it, impatient"). Zen-speak does overwhelm some images ("Snow holds back the dawn?/ an extra minute of lying here/ while the self sleeps on"), and some of the musings on language seem pat: "words telling secrets/ to no one but river and rain." But as with the volume's concluding poems, which address the reader directly ("I want you with me, and yet you are the end/ of my privacy") one feels certain of their immediacy.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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