The Reef

by Elizabeth Arnold

Book Overview

Elizabeth Arnold's first book of poems documents her struggle with cancer. A book-length sequence of poems, The Reef rockets the reader through a Heraclitean chute of accelerated life experience by way of anecdote, satire, facts from medical science, and lyrical sweep. This multilayered work explores the depths of illness, investigating the way one's attitude toward it changes over time and how one gathers and processes information in order...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226027368
• ISBN13: 9780226027364
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 70 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.5" x 8.9"