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. "Friendships based on.
His poems narrate amatory and culinary misadventures.
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.
The book is an intriguing set of variations on the theme of identity.
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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