Publisher's Synopsis
'In the last ten years Chase Twichell has published three very different and very strong books. The first, Perdido, was about desire and sexuality and dreams. The second, The Ghost of Eden, came as a surprise - an angry, clear-headed book about the destruction of the earth - as if she'd shaken off dreams and desire and taken a hard look at how things were. The newest book, The Snow Watcher, is a surprise again…Reading the poems in The Snow Watcher is like breathing cold air. Organised as a kind of narrative of her apprenticeship in Zen meditation, they are full of sharp observation, both of the world and herself, unsentimental poems with a sinewy intellectual toughness, and, as the book progresses, they open out into a stark, sometimes bewildered clarity.'- Robert Hass, Washington Post
