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9780300079104

Shells

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  • ISBN13:

    9780300079104

  • ISBN10:

    0300079109

  • Format: Trade Paper
  • Copyright: 1999-03-11
  • Publisher: Yale University Press

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A collection of poems that celebrate food and sex, describe the dangers inherent in them both and the ways in which food can serve to hide and reveal feelings about relationships, and discuss the shells that people build around themselves, hoping for protection but finding only a place to hide

Table of Contents

Foreword ix
W. S. Merwin
Acknowledgments xv
Hermit crab
1(1)
The Power Grip
2(4)
For a cook
6(1)
Scrubbing mussels
7(2)
Artichoke
9(2)
Saffron
11(3)
The extravagance of zoos
14(3)
Amateur
17(3)
Boots
20(2)
Ubi sunt...?
22(1)
Locker room etiquette
23(3)
Great dark man
26(1)
Little shrimp
27(3)
Leader of men
30(2)
Grace
32(4)
Why I skip my high school reunions
36(1)
Hot
37(6)
Living with it
43(1)
Roommates
44(3)
Shore
47(4)
Transparent
51(12)
Merman
63(4)
Watching for mermaids
67(4)
Scheherazade
71(5)
Snail Museum
76

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