Arnold, Craig 1999
Teach me a fruit of your
country I asked and so you dipped
into a shop and in your hand
held me a thick yellow pinecone
– Craig Arnold, “Pitahaya”
Watch Craig Arnold read his poem, “Incubus,” from University of Wyoming Television:
Craig Arnold reads Incubus
Craig Arnold reads Incubus from Made Flesh. Recorded as part of a studio poetry series on January 30, 2008 by University of Wyoming Television (UWTV). Producer/Director: Ali Grossman
You have towered here
leaning half over the wall
all my awareness
– Craig Arnold, “Mulberry”
Read this interview from McSweeney’s with Arnold’s partner Rebecca Lindenberg, about the book she wrote after Arnold’s disappearance and death:
A McSweeney’s Books Q&A with Rebecca Lindenberg, author of Love, an Index.
A McSweeney’s Books Q&A with Rebecca Lindenberg, author of Love, an Index. A man disappears. The woman who loves him continues to see him him everywhere, even after she knows he can never return. In her fierce, one-of-a-kind debut, Rebecca Lindenberg tells the story-in verse-of her passionate relationship with Craig Arnold, a much-respected poet who disappeared in 2009 while hiking a volcano in Japan.
