{"product_id":"the-world-it-was-paperback","title":"The World It Was - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChase Twichell\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn elegiacal collection looks unflinchingly at the degradations of the planet and the human body with an urgent appeal to live fully and presently\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten in the wake of the COVID pandemic lockdown, mass ecological tragedy, a chronic illness diagnosis, and the death of Twichell's husband, \u003cem\u003eThe World It Was\u003c\/em\u003e turns its gaze upon loss with unflinching lucidity. \"Language is a door,\" Twichell writes--yet she circles that door warily, questioning whether words can ever grant true communion with what lies beyond them. As she travels between memories of her childhood and reflections on her aging body, Twichell's signature attentiveness and restraint call the reader to build a dwelling in the uneasy space between presence and grief. Part elegy, part meditation, \u003cem\u003eThe World It Was\u003c\/em\u003e listens for the quiet intelligence of nature even as it mourns what has been destroyed. What remains is a grief that refuses consolation, instead insisting upon the necessity of seeing, naming, and being fully alive inside the brief body and the dying world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChase Twichell has published eight books of poetry, most recently \u003cem\u003eThings As It Is\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eHorses Where the Answers Should Have Been: New and Selected Poems, \u003c\/em\u003e which won both the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and the Balcones Poetry Prize. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Artists Foundation, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Twichell was the founder of Ausable Press, a publisher of contemporary poetry, and since 1996, she has been a student in the Mountains and Rivers Order at Zen Mountain Monastery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 104\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.8 x 5.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 20, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67857898537267,"sku":"9781556597381","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/HPNiPbN5go9781556597381.webp?v=1793574118","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/the-world-it-was-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}