Shells (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780300079104)

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.

Author: Craig Arnold
ISBN-10: 0300079109
ISBN-13: 9780300079104
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/01/1999
Pages: 102
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.31lbs
Size: 9.24h x 5.32w x 0.32d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/29/1999 pg. 99
Booklist 03/15/1999
Library Journal 05/01/1999