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The World It Was

The World It Was

Twichell, Chase

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $17.00

PREORDER - Expected ship date October 20, 2026

ISBN10: 155659738X
ISBN13: 9781556597381
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Published: Oct 20 2026
Pages: 104
Language: English

An elegiacal collection looks unflinchingly at the degradations of the planet and the human body with an urgent appeal to live fully and presently


Written in the wake of the COVID pandemic lockdown, mass ecological tragedy, a chronic illness diagnosis, and the death of Twichell's husband, The World It Was 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, The World It Was 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.

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