The Ghost of Eden

by Chase Twichell

Book Overview

Vividly realized, emotionally gripping, these poems of Chase Twichell's confront the crucial issue of our times: the death of nature as we have known it. The Adirondacks, with their beauties and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 086538083X
• ISBN13: 9780865380837
• Release Date: October 1995
• Publisher: Ontario Review Press
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Angry Nature

Chase Twichell writes poetry beautifully. She has a wonderful sense of rhythm and form. Her poems flow and take the reader along. She is a splendid observer of nature and this shows in her work. She occasionally gets you into the poem and then smacks you in the face with unexpected violence. As an observer and commentator on nature she is comparable to Mary Oliver. But, where Oliver celebrates the beauty and meaning of nature, Ms. Twichell laments it's distruction and loss. Both are probably necessary but the results are quite different. If you are in the mood to be uplifted read Oliver. But if you want ammunition and encouragement in a fight to save the nature we have left, by all means read this book.