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Shells
Contributor(s): Arnold, Craig (Author), Merwin, W. S. (Foreword by)

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 ISBN: 0300079109     ISBN-13: 9780300079104
Publisher: Yale University Press
OUR PRICE: $24.15  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: March 1999
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Annotation: Winner of the 1998 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition, Craig Arnold's Shells 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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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American - General
Dewey: 811.54
LCCN: 98-31256
Series: Yale Series of Younger Poets
Physical Information: 0.32" H x 5.32" W x 9.24" L (0.31 lbs) 102 pages
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 03/29/1999 pg. 99
Booklist 03/15/1999
Library Journal 05/01/1999
 
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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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