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Celebrated for its compelling narrative, this memoir offers an intimate look into the author's life, highlighting transformative experiences and personal growth. Through vivid storytelling, it explores themes of resilience, identity, and the complexities of human relationships. The author shares poignant moments that resonate with readers, inviting them to reflect on their own journeys. This captivating account has garnered acclaim, marking it as a standout in contemporary memoir literature.

"A stunning new collection of poetry from Whiting Award-winner Shane McCrae, whose work "demands-earns-our attention" (Nick Ripatrazone, The Millions)"--

An unforgettable memoir of a mixed-race child kidnapped and raised by his white supremacist grandparents

'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 recreate images of our shared and specific pasts, McCrae writes into and through the wounds that we remember and 'strains toward a vision of joy' (Will Brewbaker, the Los Angeles Review of Books). Cain Named the Animal expands upon the biblical, heavenly world that McCrae has been building throughout his previous collections; he writes of Eden, of the lost tribe that watched time enter the garden and God rehearse the world, and of the cartoon torments of Hell. Yet for McCrae, these outer bounds of our universe are inseparable from the lives and deaths on earth, from the mundanities and miracles of time passing and people growing up, growing old, and growing apart. As he writes, 'God first thought time itself/Was flawed but time was God's first mirror.'

Spanning religious, historical, and political themes, a new collection from the award-winning poet I think now more than half Of life is death but I can’t die Enough for all the life I see Sometimes I Never Suffered is Shane McCrae's seventh collection of poems. Here, an angel, hastily thrown together by his fellow residents of Heaven, plummets to Earth in his first moments of consciousness. Jim Limber, the adopted mixed-race son of Jefferson Davis, wanders through the afterlife, reckoning with the nuances of America’s, as well as his own, racial history. Sometimes I Never Suffered is a search for purpose and atonement, freedom and forgiveness, imagining eternity not as an escape from the past or present, but as a reverberating record and as the culmination of time’s manifold potential to mend.

An incisive new collection of poetry on political and contemporary themes by Award-winning author Shane McCrae

Winner of the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry (2017) Acclaimed poet Shane McCrae's latest collection is a book about freedom told through stories of captivity.