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Shane McCrae Cain Named the Animal (Paperback)
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- Book Title
- Cain Named the Animal : Poems
- Publication Name
- Cain Named the Animal
- Title
- Cain Named the Animal
- Subtitle
- Poems
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0374607842
- EAN
- 9780374607845
- ISBN
- 9780374607845
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- Genre
- Poetry
- Release Date
- 04/04/2023
- Release Year
- 2023
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.3in
- Item Length
- 8.2in
- Item Width
- 5.3in
- Item Weight
- 4.6 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2023
- Topic
- American / African American
- Number of Pages
- 96 Pages
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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."
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Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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0374607842
ISBN-13
9780374607845
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7057248978
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Book Title
Cain Named the Animal : Poems
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
American / African American
Publication Year
2023
Genre
Poetry
Number of Pages
96 Pages
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Item Length
8.2in
Item Height
0.3in
Item Width
5.3in
Item Weight
4.6 Oz
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"McCrae's poems possess a self-reflective quality without being burdened by history. As in Beckett and Whitman, repetition generates a self-searching, hypnotic music. His poetry moves freely within the restricted syllabic lines, constructing a wild, vivid dreamworld . . . [ Cain Named the Animal ] confirms McCrae as one of the most erudite and inventive poets of our time, throwing punches at the English language and its hierarchical traditions." --Kit Fan, The Guardian (UK) "What [McCrae] observes at the end of 'Worldful,' 'but what life does / Not have to be reduced to be imagined,' is true of any description or summary of the best of these lyrics. Praise is due for their craft, but even more so for their imaginative power." --Michael Autrey, Booklist "McCrae's poems allude to literary precursors like Dante, Milton, and the Bible, but the voice is unabashedly of our time . . . By seeking to heal the rift in his own identity, McCrae has listened intently to the literary echoes emanating from the English language and transmuted them through his own dynamic voice." --David Woo, Poetry "Prophetic and necessary . . . This dazzling collection tests the limits of language, memory, and mythmaking in wildly inventive, often devastating ways." -- Publishers Weekly, "McCrae's poems possess a self-reflective quality without being burdened by history. As in Beckett and Whitman, repetition generates a self-searching, hypnotic music. His poetry moves freely within the restricted syllabic lines, constructing a wild, vivid dreamworld . . . [ Cain Named the Animal ] confirms McCrae as one of the most erudite and inventive poets of our time, throwing punches at the English language and its hierarchical traditions." --Kit Fan, The Guardian (UK) "What [McCrae] observes at the end of 'Worldful,' 'but what life does / Not have to be reduced to be imagined,' is true of any description or summary of the best of these lyrics. Praise is due for their craft, but even more so for their imaginative power." --Michael Autrey, Booklist, "McCrae's poems possess a self-reflective quality without being burdened by history. As in Beckett and Whitman, repetition generates a self-searching, hypnotic music. His poetry moves freely within the restricted syllabic lines, constructing a wild, vivid dreamworld . . . [ Cain Named the Animal ] confirms McCrae as one of the most erudite and inventive poets of our time, throwing punches at the English language and its hierarchical traditions." --Kit Fan, The Guardian (UK) "What [McCrae] observes at the end of 'Worldful,' 'but what life does / Not have to be reduced to be imagined,' is true of any description or summary of the best of these lyrics. Praise is due for their craft, but even more so for their imaginative power." --Michael Autrey, Booklist "Prophetic and necessary . . . This dazzling collection tests the limits of language, memory, and mythmaking in wildly inventive, often devastating ways." -- Publishers Weekly, "McCrae's poems possess a self-reflective quality without being burdened by history. As in Beckett and Whitman, repetition generates a self-searching, hypnotic music. His poetry moves freely within the restricted syllabic lines, constructing a wild, vivid dreamworld . . . [ Cain Named the Animal ] confirms McCrae as one of the most erudite and inventive poets of our time, throwing punches at the English language and its hierarchical traditions." --Kit Fan, The Guardian (UK) "What [McCrae] observes at the end of 'Worldful,' 'but what life does / Not have to be reduced to be imagined,' is true of any description or summary of the best of these lyrics. Praise is due for their craft, but even more so for their imaginative power." --Michael Autrey, Booklist "McCrae's poems allude to literary precursors like Dante, Milton, and the Bible, but the voice is unabashedly of our time . . . By seeking to heal the rift in his own identity, McCrae has listened intently to the literary echoes emanating from the English language and transmuted them through his own dynamic voice." --David Woo, Poetry "Prophetic and necessary . . . This dazzling collection tests the limits of language, memory, and mythmaking in wildly inventive, often devastating ways." -- Publishers Weekly "Readers will marvel at McCrae's ability to achieve Miltonic scope with such economy of expression." -- Library Journal, "McCrae's poems possess a self-reflective quality without being burdened by history. As in Beckett and Whitman, repetition generates a self-searching, hypnotic music. His poetry moves freely within the restricted syllabic lines, constructing a wild, vivid dreamworld . . . [ Cain Named the Animal ] confirms McCrae as one of the most erudite and inventive poets of our time, throwing punches at the English language and its hierarchical traditions." --Kit Fan, The Guardian (UK) "What [McCrae] observes at the end of 'Worldful,' 'but what life does / Not have to be reduced to be imagined,' is true of any description or summary of the best of these lyrics. Praise is due for their craft, but even more so for their imaginative power." --Michael Autrey, Booklist "McCrae's poems allude to literary precursors like Dante, Milton, and the Bible, but the voice is unabashedly of our time . . . By seeking to heal the rift in his own identity, McCrae has listened intently to the literary echoes emanating from the English language and transmuted them through his own dynamic voice." --David Woo, Poetry "[Shane McCrae] is peer to the peerless . . . You can feel the stage on the page here, poems that even as blotted ink on middle-weight paper seem to have sound." --B. A. Van Sise, New York Journal of Books "Prophetic and necessary . . . This dazzling collection tests the limits of language, memory, and mythmaking in wildly inventive, often devastating ways." -- Publishers Weekly "Readers will marvel at McCrae's ability to achieve Miltonic scope with such economy of expression." -- Library Journal, Named a Best Poetry Book of 2022 by Library Journal "McCrae's poems possess a self-reflective quality without being burdened by history. As in Beckett and Whitman, repetition generates a self-searching, hypnotic music. His poetry moves freely within the restricted syllabic lines, constructing a wild, vivid dreamworld . . . [ Cain Named the Animal ] confirms McCrae as one of the most erudite and inventive poets of our time, throwing punches at the English language and its hierarchical traditions." --Kit Fan, The Guardian (UK) "What [McCrae] observes at the end of 'Worldful,' 'but what life does / Not have to be reduced to be imagined,' is true of any description or summary of the best of these lyrics. Praise is due for their craft, but even more so for their imaginative power." --Michael Autrey, Booklist "McCrae's poems allude to literary precursors like Dante, Milton, and the Bible, but the voice is unabashedly of our time . . . By seeking to heal the rift in his own identity, McCrae has listened intently to the literary echoes emanating from the English language and transmuted them through his own dynamic voice." --David Woo, Poetry "[Shane McCrae] is peer to the peerless . . . You can feel the stage on the page here, poems that even as blotted ink on middle-weight paper seem to have sound." --B. A. Van Sise, New York Journal of Books "Prophetic and necessary . . . This dazzling collection tests the limits of language, memory, and mythmaking in wildly inventive, often devastating ways." -- Publishers Weekly "Readers will marvel at McCrae's ability to achieve Miltonic scope with such economy of expression." -- Library Journal
Table of Content
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
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