Horses where the answers should have been : new and selected poems / Chase Twichell.
2010
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Title
Horses where the answers should have been : new and selected poems / Chase Twichell.
Uniform Title
Poems. Selections
ISBN
9781556593185 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
155659318X
155659318X
Published
Port Townsend, Washington : Copper Canyon Press, [2010]
Copyright
©2010
Language
English
Description
xii, 255 pages ; 23 cm
Exhibited
2010 Poets House Showcase.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)456178290
Summary
Twichell's first retrospective collection gathers poems from six previous books and adds nearly a book's worth of new poems, all in an accessible, plainspoken style of mostly free verse that renders poems as crystal clear as they are deep. Again and again, Twichell confronts the fact of loss and the transitory nature of life with acceptance and a melancholy hope spurred by close attention paid to the natural world: "Creatures are born from atoms, from air, / parentless, and drift like satellites/ out of a snowy tree," reads one early poem. One of Twichell's greatest skills is to depict nature as transcendent without making it seem anything but plainly natural, if mysterious: "Gravity draws down to me a halo/ whipped up of holy dust// or dust from outer space." Many poems also reflect Buddhist attitudes, reasons, perhaps, for their deep calm and acceptance. "Now when I can't sleep/ I say as a prayer/ the names of all the little brooks," she says. The new poems confront mortality with the same willingness: "A door blew open, and a black river/ flowed into my house."--Publishers Weekly.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note
From Northern spy. Inland
A mysterious heart
Northern lights
This was a farm
Reno
Snow light
The iris, that sexual flower
Your eightieth
The dim parade
Like a caretaker
Nostalgia for the future
Watercress and ice
The billowing lights
His shoulders in the water
from The odds. Meteor showers, August 1968
Cedar needles
Planet of smoke and cloud
Evening, Herron's Farm
Japanese weeping cherry
The Hotel du Nord
Rhymes for old age
Paper white narcissus
Words for synthesizer
Abandoned house in late light
Let X
Electrical storm
The colorless center of everything
Translations from the rational
Partita for solo violin
from Perdido. Why all good music is sad
A minor crush of cells
The givens
Dream of the interior
Window in the shape of a diamond
The shades of Grand Central
Useless islands
The condom tree
Six belons
Chanel No. 5
The blade of nostalgia
Revenge
Word silence
O Miami
from The ghost of Eden. Animal graves
The pools
Little snowscape
The ruiner of lives
The immortal pilots
Snow in Condoland
Bad movie, bad audience
The devil I don't know
The whirlpool
Touch-me-not
A seduction
The city in the lilac
White conclusion
The rule of the North Star
Aisle of dogs
Ghost birches
Silver slur
City animals
from The snow watcher. Mistake
Private airplane
Girl riding bareback
Glimpse
Solo
Animal languages
Secrets
Hologram
Arsonist and fireman
The innocent one
Horse
Saint Animal
Decade
Erotic energy
A last look back
Makeshifts
Paint
Hunger for something
My taste for trash
To the reader : The language of the cloud
Today's lapses
Stray
To the reader : Polaroids
Architecture
To the reader : If you asked me
To the reader : Twilight
from Dog language. Skeleton
The paper river
Dangerous playgrounds
A lamb by its ma
Cocktail music
Auld Lang Syne
Marijuana
Bonsai
Soul in space
New England slate pane
Cities of mind
Tech help
Arcade
The ceiling
Cinderblock
Verizon
My listener
Dog biscuits
Vestibule
A negative of snow
Monastery nights
Work libido
Thought satellite
Horse where answer should have been : new poems. Snow-globe of Vesuvius
The long bony faces of the mules
Tourist traps
Math trauma
Tomboyhood
Savin Rock
Walky-talky
My lethe
Sideshows
The dark rides
Mask of a maiden
Cold water
Snakeskin
Forensic interludes
War porn
Negligent worldicide
The fifth precept
Sayonara marijuana mon amour
Playgrounds of being
Clouds and water
Tenderfoot
How Zen ruins poets
God-bad Zazen
The fork
Old-lady cautious on the stairs
From a distance
Zazen and opium.
A mysterious heart
Northern lights
This was a farm
Reno
Snow light
The iris, that sexual flower
Your eightieth
The dim parade
Like a caretaker
Nostalgia for the future
Watercress and ice
The billowing lights
His shoulders in the water
from The odds. Meteor showers, August 1968
Cedar needles
Planet of smoke and cloud
Evening, Herron's Farm
Japanese weeping cherry
The Hotel du Nord
Rhymes for old age
Paper white narcissus
Words for synthesizer
Abandoned house in late light
Let X
Electrical storm
The colorless center of everything
Translations from the rational
Partita for solo violin
from Perdido. Why all good music is sad
A minor crush of cells
The givens
Dream of the interior
Window in the shape of a diamond
The shades of Grand Central
Useless islands
The condom tree
Six belons
Chanel No. 5
The blade of nostalgia
Revenge
Word silence
O Miami
from The ghost of Eden. Animal graves
The pools
Little snowscape
The ruiner of lives
The immortal pilots
Snow in Condoland
Bad movie, bad audience
The devil I don't know
The whirlpool
Touch-me-not
A seduction
The city in the lilac
White conclusion
The rule of the North Star
Aisle of dogs
Ghost birches
Silver slur
City animals
from The snow watcher. Mistake
Private airplane
Girl riding bareback
Glimpse
Solo
Animal languages
Secrets
Hologram
Arsonist and fireman
The innocent one
Horse
Saint Animal
Decade
Erotic energy
A last look back
Makeshifts
Paint
Hunger for something
My taste for trash
To the reader : The language of the cloud
Today's lapses
Stray
To the reader : Polaroids
Architecture
To the reader : If you asked me
To the reader : Twilight
from Dog language. Skeleton
The paper river
Dangerous playgrounds
A lamb by its ma
Cocktail music
Auld Lang Syne
Marijuana
Bonsai
Soul in space
New England slate pane
Cities of mind
Tech help
Arcade
The ceiling
Cinderblock
Verizon
My listener
Dog biscuits
Vestibule
A negative of snow
Monastery nights
Work libido
Thought satellite
Horse where answer should have been : new poems. Snow-globe of Vesuvius
The long bony faces of the mules
Tourist traps
Math trauma
Tomboyhood
Savin Rock
Walky-talky
My lethe
Sideshows
The dark rides
Mask of a maiden
Cold water
Snakeskin
Forensic interludes
War porn
Negligent worldicide
The fifth precept
Sayonara marijuana mon amour
Playgrounds of being
Clouds and water
Tenderfoot
How Zen ruins poets
God-bad Zazen
The fork
Old-lady cautious on the stairs
From a distance
Zazen and opium.
Awards
Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, 2011.
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