Description |
xv, 79 pages ; 25 cm. |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
Series |
Yale series of younger poets ; v. 93 |
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Yale series of younger poets ; v. 93.
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Contents |
Foreword / W.S. Merwin -- Hermit crab -- The Power Grip -- For a cook -- Scrubbing mussels -- Artichoke -- Saffron -- The extravagance of zoos -- Amateur -- Boots -- Ubi sunt ...? -- Locker room etiquette -- Great dark man -- Little shrimp -- Leader of men -- Grace -- Why I skip my high school reunions -- Hot -- Living with it -- Roommates -- Shore -- Transparent -- Merman -- Watching for mermaids -- Scheherazade -- Snail Museum. |
Summary |
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. |
Awards |
Yale Series of Younger Poets. |
Subject |
American poetry.
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American poetry. (OCoLC)fst00807348
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ISBN |
0300079095 (alk. paper) |
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9780300079098 (alk. paper) |
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0300079109 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780300079104 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
Standard No. |
AU@ 000020062932 |
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LQU 415093 |
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NZ1 4931671 |
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YDXCP 1555701 |
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YDXCP 1555702 |
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