The Snow Watcher

Twichell, Chase

ISBN 10: 0865380929 / ISBN 13: 9780865380929

Published by Ontario Review Press, Princeton, 1998

About this Item

This copy has been SIGNED by Chase Twichell on the title page. The Snow Watcher is a sequence of poems that asks a single obsessive question: what is the self? Jim Harrison dustjacket praise "Chase Twichell s The Snow Watcher is raw, fresh, and lucidly harsh. These poems often enter a not quite familiar terrain, taking us on an admirable but not quite comfortable journey into ourselves.".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Snow Watcher
• Publisher: Ontario Review Press, Princeton
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0865380929
• ISBN 13: 9780865380929
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition/First Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry
  • Modern First Editions

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Synopsis

"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.

Reviews

Reading the poems in The Snow Watcher is like breathing cold air. Organized as a kind of narrative of Twichell's apprenticeship in Zen meditation, they are full of sharp observation, both of the world and herself, unsentimental poems with a sinewy intellectual toughness.