Shane Mccrae

Sometimes I Never Suffered (eBook, ePUB)

Poems

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A profound exploration of race, history, and the afterlife from an acclaimed poet

In Sometimes I Never Suffered, his seventh collection of poems, Shane McCrae continues to be "a shrewd composer of American stories" (The New Yorker). 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 racial history and his own identity.

McCrae's verses span religious, historical, and political themes, searching for purpose and atonement, freedom and forgiveness. Sometimes I Never Suffered imagines eternity not as an escape from the past or present, but as a reverberating record and the culmination of time's manifold potential to mend.

I think now more than half

Of life is death but I can't die

Enough for all the life I see

A thought-provoking exploration of race, discrimination, and the complexities of the African American experience, this award-winning collection solidifies McCrae's place among the most compelling voices in contemporary poetry.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Seitenzahl: 112
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. August 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780374721800
• Artikelnr.: 57806275

Autorenporträt

Shane McCrae is the author of several books of poetry: The Gilded Auction Block; In the Language of My Captor, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the William Carlos Williams Award; The Animal Too Big to Kill, winner of the 2014 Lexi Rudnitsky / Editor's Choice Award; Forgiveness Forgiveness; Blood; and Mule. He is the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. He teaches at Columbia University and lives in New York City.