Case 5.8

Twichell, Chase. “The Pools.” Rooted in Rock: New Adirondack Writing, 1975-2000. Ed. Jim Gould, 1st ed. Syracuse N.Y.: Adirondack Museum/Syracuse University Press, 2001. PS548.N7 R66 2001.

From this anthology, I decided to highlight “The Pools” by Chase Twichell because of its ability to capture the feeling of being human and in that powerless in the natural world. It sets itself in the Adirondacks, on the Ausable River, but uses this river as a means by which to describe nature as awe-inspiring: “I called it God for the way/ it made my heart feel crushed/ with love for the world outside myself” (414).