{"product_id":"twichell-chase-the-world-pb","title":"[10\/20\/26] Twichell, Chase: The World It Was","description":"\u003cp\u003eCopper Canyon Press, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: October 20, 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWritten in the wake of the COVID pandemic lockdown, mass ecological tragedy, a chronic illness diagnosis, and the death of Twichell's husband, \u003ci\u003eThe World it Was\u003c\/i\u003e turns its gaze upon loss with unflinching lucidity. \"Language is a door,\" Twichell writes--yet, in \u003ci\u003eThe World it Was\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 calls the reader to build a dwelling in the uneasy space between presence and grief. Part elegy, part meditation, \u003ci\u003eThe World It Was\u003c\/i\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","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45118184980503,"sku":"9781556597381","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/810YXyLFAVL._SL1500.jpg?v=1778887583","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/twichell-chase-the-world-pb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}