A prophetic new collection of poems from Shane McCrae, "a shrewd composer of American stories" (Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker) 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, McCrae's work moves into and through the wounds that we remember and "strains toward a vision of joy" (Will Brewbaker, Los Angeles Review of Books). Cain Named the Animal…mehr
A prophetic new collection of poems from Shane McCrae, "a shrewd composer of American stories" (Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker) 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, McCrae's work moves into and through the wounds that we remember and "strains toward a vision of joy" (Will Brewbaker, 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."
Shane McCrae is the author of several books of poetry, including In the Language of My Captor, which won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Poetry and was a finalist for the National Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the William Carlos Williams Award. His collection, Sometimes I Never Suffered, was short-listed for the T. S. Eliot Prize. McCrae is the recipient of a Whiting Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He teaches at Columbia University and lives in New York City.
Inhaltsangabe
Contents Some Heavens Are All Silence 3 Love Poems and Others Arm in the Excavator's Shovel 7 Whom I Have Blocked Out 9 To Make a Wound 11 A Letter to Lucie About Lucie 12 Worldful 14 To My Mother's Father 17 The King of the Sadnesses of Dogs 18 Eurydice on the Art of Poetry 20 Husbands 22 For Melissa Asleep Upstairs 23 Nowhere Is Local 24 The Professor 25 The Butterflies the Mountain and the Lake 26 For Sylvia Twenty-Eight in July 27 To Nicholas from My Absence 28 Having Been Raised by My Kidnappers I Consider the Gift of Life, or A Gift from a Thief 29 A Thousand Pictures 30 Please Come Flying 32 Vivian Maier Considers Heaven from a Bench in Rogers Beach Park Chicago 33 Recapitulations The Hastily Assembled Angel on Embodiment 37 Jim Limber on Silence 39 Cain Named the Animal The Lost Tribe of Eden 43 Constantly Throwing Up 44 The Lost Tribe of Eden at the Beginning of the Days of Blood 47 The Robot Bird Tells Me How It Is I Am in Hell 49 The Beginning of Time 53 The Reformation 56 In Which the Beginning of Time Happens in a Different Way 65 The Dream at the End of the Dream 68 Notes 81 Acknowledgments 83
Contents Some Heavens Are All Silence 3 Love Poems and Others Arm in the Excavator's Shovel 7 Whom I Have Blocked Out 9 To Make a Wound 11 A Letter to Lucie About Lucie 12 Worldful 14 To My Mother's Father 17 The King of the Sadnesses of Dogs 18 Eurydice on the Art of Poetry 20 Husbands 22 For Melissa Asleep Upstairs 23 Nowhere Is Local 24 The Professor 25 The Butterflies the Mountain and the Lake 26 For Sylvia Twenty-Eight in July 27 To Nicholas from My Absence 28 Having Been Raised by My Kidnappers I Consider the Gift of Life, or A Gift from a Thief 29 A Thousand Pictures 30 Please Come Flying 32 Vivian Maier Considers Heaven from a Bench in Rogers Beach Park Chicago 33 Recapitulations The Hastily Assembled Angel on Embodiment 37 Jim Limber on Silence 39 Cain Named the Animal The Lost Tribe of Eden 43 Constantly Throwing Up 44 The Lost Tribe of Eden at the Beginning of the Days of Blood 47 The Robot Bird Tells Me How It Is I Am in Hell 49 The Beginning of Time 53 The Reformation 56 In Which the Beginning of Time Happens in a Different Way 65 The Dream at the End of the Dream 68 Notes 81 Acknowledgments 83
Es gelten unsere Allgemeinen Geschäftsbedingungen: www.buecher.de/agb
Impressum
www.buecher.de ist ein Internetauftritt der buecher.de internetstores GmbH
Geschäftsführung: Monica Sawhney | Roland Kölbl | Günter Hilger
Sitz der Gesellschaft: Batheyer Straße 115 - 117, 58099 Hagen
Postanschrift: Bürgermeister-Wegele-Str. 12, 86167 Augsburg
Amtsgericht Hagen HRB 13257
Steuernummer: 321/5800/1497
USt-IdNr: DE450055826
