Dog Language - by Chase Twichell (Paperback)

About the Book

Twichell has a "dazzling and profound imagination" (Library Journal) and is a "major voice." (Publishers Weekly)

Book Synopsis

Chase Twichell follows these rules when writing poems: "Tell the truth. No decoration. Remember death." In an age when individual identity is questioned, medicated, and revised, the poems in Dog Language address the question "What is the self?" Following the line of human development, Twichell confronts memory and mortality and asks what, if anything, survives. She writes, "poetry is not window-cleaning. / It breaks the glass."

About the Author

Chase Twichell is the author of five books of poetry and the best-selling Practice of Poetry. She is the founding editor of Ausable Press and lives in rural New York, with her husband, the novelist Russell Banks.