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Eine unglaubliche autobiographische Familiengeschichte über Identität, Herkunft und Rassismus »Ein unverzichtbares Buch für unsere heutige Zeit.« Hilton Als Shane McCrae lebte als kleines Kind bei seinem schwarzen Vater. Als er achtzehn Monate alt war, wurde er von seinen weißen, rassistischen Großeltern mütterlicherseits nach Texas entführt. In den folgenden Jahren manipulierten und kontrollierten sie ihn und weigerten sich, seine Wurzeln...

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 Hundreds of the Scent, an urgent new collection that brims with lyric force. He expands both the poetic and the personal mythologies that he has been constructing over the course of his career. In addition to introducing his readers to "the thin king / who eats t...

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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 was three years old, his grandparents kidnapped him and took him to suburban Texas. His mom was white and his dad was Black, and to hide his Blackness from him, his maternal grandparents stole him from his father. In the years that followed,...

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 kidnapped him and took him to suburban Texas. His mom was white and his dad was Black, and to hide his Blackness from him, his maternal grandparents stole him from his father. In the years that followed, they manipulated and controlled him, refusing...

An unforgettable memoir of a mixed-race child kidnapped and raised by his white supremacist grandparents

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The stunning new collection from prize-winning poet Shane McCrae is his most personal collection yet

A stunning new collection of poetry from the Whiting Award winner Shane McCrae.Shane McCrae, one of the most powerful voices in contemporary poetry, returns with The Many Hundreds of the Scent, an urgent new collection that brims with lyric force. He expands both the poetic and the personal mythologies that he has been constructing over the course of his career, in addition to introducing his readers to "the thin king / who eats the world, " M...

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 takeI know I should feel wounded by your deathI write to you to make a wound write backShane 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 a...

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 takeI know I should feel wounded by your deathI write to you to make a wound write backShane 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, he writes into and through...

but Cain he lookedAbel in the eyes and saw himselfNot in his brother's heart but inHis head and crushed his head and yeahWhere else do humans start Cain namesThe animal in Abel's headThe poems in his new collection - poems of harm and deliverance, of family and home - mark him out as one of of most taltented and vital contemporary poets

Spanning religious, historical, and political themes, the seventh collection from the award-winning poet I think now more than halfOf life is death but I can't dieEnough for all the life I seeIn Sometimes I Never Suffered, his seventh collection of poems, Shane McCrae remains "a shrewd composer of American stories" (Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker). Here, an angel, hastily thrown together by his fellow residents of Heaven, plummets to Earth in hi...

Acclaimed poet Shane McCrae¿s latest collection is a book about freedom told through stories of captivity. Historical persona poems and a prose memoir at the center of the book address the illusory freedom of both black and white Americans. In the book¿s three sequences, McCrae explores the role mass entertainment plays in oppression, he confronts the myth that freedom can be based upon the power to dominate others, and, in poems about the mix...

An incisive new collection of poetry on political and contemporary themesI'm made of murderers I'm madeOf nobodies and immigrants and the poorand a whole / Family the mother'sliver and her lungsIn The Gilded Auction Block, the acclaimed poet Shane McCrae considers the present moment in America on its own terms as well as for what it says about the American project and Americans themselves. In the book's four sections, McCrae alternately respon...

Spanning religious, historical, and political themes, a new collection from the award-winning poetI think now more than halfOf life is death but I can't dieEnough for all the life I seeHere, 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,...

Spanning religious, historical, and political themes, a new collection from the award-winning poet I think now more than halfOf life is death but I can't dieEnough for all the life I seeIn Sometimes I Never Suffered, his seventh collection of poems, Shane McCrae remains "a shrewd composer of American stories" (Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker). Here, an angel, hastily thrown together by his fellow residents of Heaven, plummets to Earth in his firs...

An incisive new collection of poetry on political and contemporary themesI'm made of murderers I'm madeOf nobodies and immigrants and the poor and a whole / Family the mother'sliver and her lungsIn The Gilded Auction Block, the acclaimed poet Shane McCrae considers the present moment in America on its own terms as well as for what it says about the American project and Americans themselves. In the book's four sections, McCrae alternately respo...

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.

An incisive new collection of poetry on political and contemporary themesI'm made of murderers I'm madeOf nobodies and immigrants and the poor and a whole / Family the mother'sliver and her lungsIn The Gilded Auction Block, the acclaimed poet Shane McCrae considers the present moment in America on its own terms as well as for what it says about the American project and Americans themselves. In the book's four sections, McCrae alternately respo...