What etiquette holds us back from more intimate speech, especially now, at the end of the world?
Chase Twichell is the author of six books of poetry, including The Snow Watcher, winner of the 1997 Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America. After teaching for many years at Warren Wilson College, the University of Alabama, and Princeton, among other schools, she founded Ausable Press, a publisher of contemporary poetry. Twichell lives in upstate New York with her husband, the novelist Russell Banks.