SNOW WATCHER CL

by TWICHELL,CHASE

• ISBN13: 9780865380929
• ISBN10: 0865380929
• Edition: 00
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-10-17
• Publisher: ONTARIO R

Summary

The Snow Watcher is a sequence of poems that asks a single obsession question: what is the self? The book is a radical re-envisioning of what makes us human rather than animal, human rather than insentient. The poems delve into parts of childhood more comfortably forgotten, and into the ancient stillness of the monastery (Twichell is a student of Zen Buddhism). In both realms the known self dissolves, or is intentionally dismantled, and what is left is something impossible to name, though its startling voice can be heard in the austere, near-empty rooms of these poems.

Table of Contents

Road Tar	3	(1)
The Black Triangle	4	(1)
The Lost Birds	5	(1)
The Wars	6	(1)
Kerosene	7	(1)
Mistake	8	(1)
Private Airplane	9	(1)
Girl Riding Bareback	10	(3)
Glimpse	13	(1)
Little Yellow Flowers	14	(1)
Cat and Mirror	15	(1)
The Year I Got Rid of Everything	16	(1)
Weightless, Like a River	17	(1)
Pine	18	(1)
Zazen, Wired & Tired	19	(1)
Ignorant Poem	20	(1)
Imaginary Dokusan: Stranger	21	(1)
Eleven Hours	22	(1)
Solo	23	(1)
Animal Languages	24	(3)
Wild Mare	27	(1)
Altars	28	(1)
Kid Music	29	(2)
Lilacs Again	31	(1)
Secrets	32	(1)
Hologram	33	(1)
Arsonist and Fireman	34	(1)
The Innocent One	35	(1)
Horse	36	(1)
Saint Animal	37	(1)
Decade	38	(1)
Erotic Energy	39	(1)
A Last Look Back	40	(3)
Makeshifts	43	(1)
Imaginary Dokusan: Autumn Rain	44	(1)
Imaginary Dokusan: Barking Dog	45	(1)
Silver and White Elegy	46	(2)
Snow	48	(1)
Visitors	49	(1)
The Verge	50	(1)
The Voice of the Air	51	(1)
Mountains and Rivers	52	(2)
Walking Meditation	54	(1)
Tea Mind	55	(1)
Paint	56	(1)
My Toshiba	57	(4)
Hunger for something	61	(1)
Disturbances of Thought	62	(1)
My Skeleton	63	(1)
Imaginary-Dokusan: Rat	64	(1)
My Taste for Trash	65	(1)
Roach Holder, Circa 1967	66	(1)
Passing Clouds	67	(1)
Summer Rain	68	(1)
To the Reader: The Language of the Cloud	69	(4)
Today's Lapses	73	(1)
Minor Problems	74	(2)
Stray	76	(1)
Cloud of Unknowing	77	(1)
Stirred up by Rain	78	(1)
The Horse-Angel	79	(1)
Bees	80	(1)
To the Reader: Polaroids	81	(1)
Architecture	82	(1)
Violence to Language	83	(1)
Imaginary Dokusan: Thistle	84	(1)
Imaginary Dokusan: Perfume	85	(1)
Imaginary Dokusan: Furnace	86	(3)
Ink Stone	89	(1)
Stone Steps	90	(1)
Icicle	91	(1)
Mystery	92	(2)
Tulip	94	(1)
White Pine	95	(1)
To the Reader: Blunt Elegy	96	(1)
To the Reader: If You Asked Me	97	(1)
To the Reader: Twilight	98	(3)
Notes	101