Shells

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Shells

Craig Arnold ; foreword by W.S. Merwin

(Yale series of younger poets, v. 93)

Yale University Press, c1999

  • : pbk

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Description and Table of Contents

Volume

ISBN 9780300079098

Description

A collection of poems by Craig Arnold. Arnold plays on the idea of the shell as both the dazzling surface of the self and a hard case that protects the self against the assaults of the world. His poems narrate amatory and culinary misadventures.
Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780300079104

Description

This year's winner of the 1998 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition is Craig Arnold's Shells, which was acclaimed as "a gifted collection of daring writing" by the contest judge, the distinguished poet W. S. Merwin. The book is an intriguing set of variations on the theme of identity. Arnold plays on the idea of the shell as both the dazzling surface of the self and a hard case that protects the self against the assaults of the world. His poems narrate amatory and culinary misadventures. "Friendships based on food," Arnold writes, "are rarely stable"-this book is full of wildly unstable and bewitching friendships and other significant relations.

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Details

  • NCID
    BA41430161
  • ISBN
    • 0300079095
    • 0300079109
  • LCCN
    98031256
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    New Haven, Ct.
  • Pages/Volumes
    xv, 79 p.
  • Size
    25 cm
  • Classification
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