{"product_id":"9781780377988-things-as-it-is-the-world-as-it-was","title":"Things as It Is | The World It Was","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003eChase Twichell has published nine books of poetry, including \u003cem\u003eHorses Where the Answers Should Have Been: New \u0026amp; Selected Poems \u003c\/em\u003e(Bloodaxe Books, UK, 2010). \u003cem\u003eThings as It Is\u003c\/em\u003e appeared in the US in 2018, and that book is now published here for her UK readers together with her latest collection, \u003cem\u003eThe World It Was \u003c\/em\u003e(2026).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTell the truth. No decoration. Remember death.\u003c\/em\u003e These are the demands Chase Twichell has made of her poems for over half a century. One of America’s most prominent poets and a longtime student of Zen Buddhism, Twichell seeks to perceive what Shunryu Suzuki called \u003cem\u003ethings-as-it-is\u003c\/em\u003e. These two books, published here in tandem, confront fundamental questions about the nature of the self: childhood trauma, the fate of a damaged planet, marriage and widowhood. Twichell’s poems – spare, unflinching, and exact – are distillations of reverence and grief. With language at once precise and intimate, she compels us to consider what it means to be conscious in a world where beauty and joy endure amid ecological and political crises. Chase Twichell has published nine books of poetry, including \u003cem\u003eHorses Where the Answers Should Have Been: New \u0026amp; Selected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e, published by Bloodaxe Books in the UK in 2010. \u003cem\u003eThings as It Is\u003c\/em\u003e followed from Copper Canyon Press in the US in 2018, and that collection is now published here for her UK readers together with her latest collection, \u003cem\u003eThe World It Was \u003c\/em\u003e(2026).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57194723475830,"sku":"9781780377988","price":11.21,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_40205635_54be316f-1f89-441c-98f2-ec1e3bd092a2.jpg?v=1772685534","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781780377988-things-as-it-is-the-world-as-it-was","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}