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Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been
Chase Twichell
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Description for Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been
Paperback. Chase Twichell is one of America's leading poets. "Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been" draws on several collections written over 35 years, including two published in Britain by Faber and two by Bloodaxe. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 486. New and Selected Poems. 192 pages. Chase Twichell is one of America's leading poets. "Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been" draws on several collections written over 35 years, including two published in Britain by Faber and two by Bloodaxe. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCF. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 20. Weight: 486.
Chase Twichell's poetry is marked by a strong identification with the natural world, one that exceeds any with other human beings. There's a dissociation born of a rough childhood, which only the later poems address head-on, though many earlier ones circle around it. Central early concerns are the heartbreak of love between men and women, the ecological decimation of our planet, and the nature of the human mind. Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been shows the evolution of a distinctive voice in American poetry through several collections written over 35 years. Beginning with "Perdido" (1991), each of her collections ... Read more
Chase Twichell's poetry is marked by a strong identification with the natural world, one that exceeds any with other human beings. There's a dissociation born of a rough childhood, which only the later poems address head-on, though many earlier ones circle around it. Central early concerns are the heartbreak of love between men and women, the ecological decimation of our planet, and the nature of the human mind. Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been shows the evolution of a distinctive voice in American poetry through several collections written over 35 years. Beginning with "Perdido" (1991), each of her collections ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781852248673
SKU
V9781852248673
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About Chase Twichell
Chase Twichell was born in 1950 in New Haven, Connecticut, and educated at Trinity College (Hartford) and the University of Iowa. She lives in the Keene Valley in the Adirondacks, where she spent many summers and vacations during her childhood and where her father's family had gone for many generations. The two greatest influences on her life and work have ... Read more
Reviews for Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been
'Suppose you had Sappho's passion, the intelligence and perspicacity of Curie, and Dickinson's sweet wit, all mixed into a brilliantly shifting connectivity of ideas, scenes, creatures, phantoms, moods, and suspicions, and set her in the life we know we live. Then you would have the poems of Chase Twichell, which are so splendid and astonishing' - Hayden Carruth. 'They are ... Read more