Shane McCrae
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An incisive new collection of poetry on political and contemporary themes.
I'm made of murderers I'm made
Of nobodies and immigrants and the poor
and a whole / Family the mother's
liver and her lungs
In The Gilded Auction Block, the acclaimed poet Shane McCrae considers the present moment in America on its own terms as well as for what it says about the American project and Americans themselves. In the book's four sections, McCrae alternately responds...
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Writing you I give the death I take
I know I should feel wounded by your death
I write to you to make a wound write back
Shane McCrae fashions a world of endings and infinites in Cain Named the Animal. With cyclical, rhythmic lines that create and re-create images of our shared and specific pasts, he writes into and through the wounds that we remember.
Cain Named the Animal expands upon the biblical, heavenly world that McCrae has been building...
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A stunning new collection of poetry from Shane McCrae.
Shane McCrae, one of the most powerful voices in contemporary poetry, returns with “The Many Hundreds of the Scent”, an urgent new collection that brims with lyric force. He expands both the poetic and the personal mythologies that he has been constructing over the course of his career. In addition to introducing his readers to "the thin king / who eats the world," McCrae invites them to...