Shells (Yale Series of Younger Poets)
By: Craig Arnold ; foreword by W.S. Merwin.
Series: Yale series of younger poets ;
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New Haven, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 79
ISBN-13: 9780300079098; 9780300079104
Description: Craig Arnold's Shells is the first book selected for the Yale Series of Younger Poets by the distinguished poet W. S. Merwin. Arnold plays on the idea of the shell as both the dazzling surface of the self and a hard case that wards off the assaults of the world. His poems narrate a dizzying array of 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.