Made Flesh
Craig Arnold
“‘Oh how the heart flares,’ Arnold writes, ‘and melts like wax spilling over a candle’s lip’: both the flares, and the excess, find the right voice in this wild second book… [which] might be the strangest and most instinctively powerful poetry book of the season, with sequences neither (quite) lyric nor narrative, but erotic and ever alert. Few who admired the clean forms of Arnold’s Yale Younger Poets Award-winning debut, Shells, could have predicted the delayed depth charge of this explosive second book, motored by vividly earthly language and disguised philosophical sophistication… Arnold records “all the speechless gestures of admiration / of those early in love who aren’t yet / careful to say so much and no further.” Arnold, by contrast, nearly says it all.” —Publishers Weekly
In 2009, Made Flesh is one of three finalists for poetry for both the Utah Book Award and the High Plains Book Award.
Binding: paper
ISBN: 978-1-931337-42-7
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