Arnold received the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship in 1996 and his poem "Hot" featured in "The Best American Poetry" 1998.
“[McCombs] lucidly mines Kentucky’s cave country. . . . Throughout,
Mammoth’s fantastical underworld—a place of ‘eyeless fish,’
dripstone nodules that ‘live and grow, and when struck,
produce/melodious tones, liquid and wavering,’ boat rides on
subterranean rivers reminiscent of ‘Styx, Lethe’—is calmly revealed
through McCombs’s translucent, musical language. . . . The rough
geology of the landscape . . . and the discovery of its shape . . .
become urgent images that strikingly illuminate darkened interior
spaces.”—Megan Harlan, New York Times Book Review
Selected as a finalist for the 2000 National Book Critics Circle
Award in the Poetry category
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