The snow watcher / Chase Twichell.
1998
PS3570.W47 S66 1998
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Title
The snow watcher / Chase Twichell.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
0865380929
9780865380929
0865380937 (pbk.)
9780865380936 (pbk.)
9780865380929
0865380937 (pbk.)
9780865380936 (pbk.)
Published
Princeton, NJ : Ontario Review Press, [1998]
Distributed
New York : George Braziller
Copyright
©1998
Language
English
Description
101 pages ; 22 cm
Call Number
PS3570.W47 S66 1998
System Control No.
(OCoLC)39108644
Summary
Snow Watcher, Chase Twichell's fifth book, is a sequence of poems that asks a single obsessive 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 monetary (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.
Subject
Snow Watcher, Chase Twichell's fifth book, is a sequence of poems that asks a single obsessive 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 monetary (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.
Formatted Contents Note
Road tar
The black triangle
The lost birds
The wars
Kerosene
Mistake
Private airplane
Girl riding bareback
Glimpse
Little yellow flowers
Cat and mirror
The year I got rid of everything
Weightless, like a river
Pine
Zazen, wired & tired
Ignorant poem
Imaginary Dokusan: Stranger
Eleven hours
Solo
Animal languages
Wild mare
Altars
Kid music
Lilacs again
Secrets
Hologram
Arsonist and fireman
The innocent one
Horse
Saint Animal
Decade
Erotic energy
A last look back
Makeshifts
Imaginary Dokusan: Autumn rain
Imaginary Dokusan: Barking dog
Silver and white elegy
Snow
Visitors
The verge
The voice of the air
Mountains and rivers
Walking meditation
Tea mind
Paint
My Toshiba
Hunger for something
Disturbances of thought
My skeleton
Imaginary Dokusan: Rat
My taste for trash
Roach holder, circa 1967
Passing clouds
Summer rain
To the reader: The language of the cloud
Today's lapses
Minor problems
Stray
Cloud of unknowing
Stirred up by rain
The horse-angel
Bees
To the reader: Polaroids
Architecture
Violence to language
Imaginary Dokusan: Thistle
Imaginary Dokusan: Perfume
Imaginary Dokusan: Furnace
Ink stone
Stone steps
Icicle
Mystery
Tulip
White pine
To the reader: Blunt elegy
To the reader: If you asked me
To the reader: Twilight.
The black triangle
The lost birds
The wars
Kerosene
Mistake
Private airplane
Girl riding bareback
Glimpse
Little yellow flowers
Cat and mirror
The year I got rid of everything
Weightless, like a river
Pine
Zazen, wired & tired
Ignorant poem
Imaginary Dokusan: Stranger
Eleven hours
Solo
Animal languages
Wild mare
Altars
Kid music
Lilacs again
Secrets
Hologram
Arsonist and fireman
The innocent one
Horse
Saint Animal
Decade
Erotic energy
A last look back
Makeshifts
Imaginary Dokusan: Autumn rain
Imaginary Dokusan: Barking dog
Silver and white elegy
Snow
Visitors
The verge
The voice of the air
Mountains and rivers
Walking meditation
Tea mind
Paint
My Toshiba
Hunger for something
Disturbances of thought
My skeleton
Imaginary Dokusan: Rat
My taste for trash
Roach holder, circa 1967
Passing clouds
Summer rain
To the reader: The language of the cloud
Today's lapses
Minor problems
Stray
Cloud of unknowing
Stirred up by rain
The horse-angel
Bees
To the reader: Polaroids
Architecture
Violence to language
Imaginary Dokusan: Thistle
Imaginary Dokusan: Perfume
Imaginary Dokusan: Furnace
Ink stone
Stone steps
Icicle
Mystery
Tulip
White pine
To the reader: Blunt elegy
To the reader: If you asked me
To the reader: Twilight.
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