{"product_id":"things-as-it-is","title":"Things as It Is","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Poems of balanced wildness and instinctual grace.\"--\u003cem\u003eNew York Journal of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[Twichell's poems] open out into a stark, sometimes bewildered clarity.\" --\u003cem\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Suppose you had Sappho's passion, the intelligence and perspicacity of Curie, and Dickinson's sweet wit . . . then you would have the poems of Chase Twichell.\" --Hayden Carruth\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A major voice in contemporary poetry.\" --\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChase Twichell's eighth collection lifts up the joy of the moment while mourning a changing world. In \u003cem\u003eThings as It Is\u003c\/em\u003e--purposefully not things as they are--the present and past parallel and intermingle. Meditating on a litany of formative moments, Twichell's clear-as-a-bell voice delivers visceral and emotionally resonant lyrics, elegies, and confessions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom \"What the Trees Said\" \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe trees have begun to undress. \u003cbr\u003eSoon snow will come to bandage \u003cbr\u003ethe whole wounded world.\u003cbr\u003eWhen I was young I eloped with \u003cbr\u003ethe sky. I wore blue-black, with \u003cbr\u003eunder-lit ribbons of pink . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChase Twichell\u003c\/strong\u003e, a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Twichell has published seven previous poetry collections, including \u003cem\u003eHorses Where Answers Should Have Been\u003c\/em\u003e, which received the 2011 Kingsley Tufts Award. For ten years, she owned and operated Ausable Press.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chase Twichell","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44816582377514,"sku":"9781556595493","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/things-as-it-is-5136277.jpg?v=1789040768","url":"https:\/\/thepoetryshop.com\/products\/things-as-it-is","provider":"The Poetry Shop LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}