Binding: Paperback
Description: A prophetic new collection of poems from Shane Mc Crae 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 Mc Crae 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 Mc Crae'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 Mc Crae 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 Mc Crae 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.
Title: Cain Named The Animal Poems
Author(s): Mccrae Shane
Publisher: Farrar Straus And Giroux
Barcode: 9780374607845
Pages: 96 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 4/4/2023