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Shane McCrae
Award winning poet of our times Shane McCrae, 'peer to the peerless' (New York Journal of Books), takes up and turns on its head the mantle of Dante in this…
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An unforgettable, "lyrical and poignant" (The Washington Post) memoir by an award-winning poet about being kidnapped from his Black father and raised by his white supremacist grandparents. When Shane McCrae…
"A pathbreaking work from a poet who "shows us how we need new music and new ears and eyes" (New York Journal of Books)-McCrae takes up and turns on its…
The stunning new collection from prize-winning poet Shane McCrae is his most personal collection yet
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A stunning new collection of poetry from Shane McCrae, winner of the Whiting Writers' Award.
Shane McCrae, one of the most powerful voices in contemporary poetry, returns with The Many…
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An unforgettable memoir of a mixed-race child kidnapped and raised by his white supremacist grandparents
An unforgettable memoir by an award-winning poet about being kidnapped from his Black father and raised by his white supremacist grandparents. When Shane McCrae was three years old, his grandparents…
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Have you ever read a book that turned your world upside down? What about a poem? Poetry has the power to enliven, challenge, change, and enrich our lives. But it…
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.
Finalist for 2012 PEN Center USA Literary Award. Finalist for 2012 PEN Center USA Literary Award. 10th anniversary edition of Shane McCrae’s groundbreaking first collection of poetry, MULE, first published…
Poetry. African American Studies. In Shane McCrae’s IN CANAAN, he inhabits the personae of the escaped slave Margaret Garner, who, in the mid-1800s, murdered one of her daughters in order…
The poems in Nonfiction are simultaneously poems and essays, formal and free, fiction and nonfiction, and all are music.
"An unforgettable memoir by an award-winning poet about being kidnapped from his Black father and raised by his white supremacist grandparents"--
Spanning religious, historical, and political themes, a new collection from the award-winning poet
An incisive new collection of poetry on political and contemporary themes by Award-winning author Shane McCrae
The highly anticipated new collection from Shane McCrae, his follow up to the highly acclaimed SOMETIMES I NEVER SUFFERED, which was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize 2020
Poems about captivity, escape, and the possibility of freedom
"A stunning new collection of poetry from Whiting Award-winner Shane McCrae, whose work "demands-earns-our attention" (Nick Ripapatrazone, The Millions)"--
A new poetry collection by Shane McCrae –
Spanning religious, historical, and political themes, a new collection from the acclaimed poet
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Hex and Other Poems is a powerful examination of race and where it lives, of American white supremacy, of art’s collective consciousness, from award-winning poet Shane McCrae.
An electric inquiry into faith, race, and poverty in America by a poet of remarkable urgency and empathy (Publishers Weekly).
An incisive new collection of poetry on political and contemporary themes
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Poetry. African American Studies. Probably the real story of race in the United States (like all real stories) can only be written by a poet. And Shane McCrae has done…
