Sometimes I Never Suffered: Poems

Sometimes I Never Suffered: Poems - Paperback

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Sometimes I Never Suffered: Poems - Paperback

Sometimes I Never Suffered: Poems - Paperback

by Shane McCrae
$18.00
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Book Overview

Spanning religious, historical, and political themes, the seventh collection from the award-winning poet

I think now more than half
Of life is death but I can't die
Enough for all the life I see

In 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 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, as well as his own.

Sometimes I Never Suffered is a search for purpose and atonement, freedom and forgiveness, imagining eternity not as an escape from the past or present, but as a reverberating record and as the culmination of time's manifold potential to mend.
ISBN9780374602918
Author Shane McCrae
PublisherFarrar, Straus and Giroux
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedAugust 2021
LanguageENG- English
Pages112
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Shane McCrae

Shane McCrae is the author of several books of poetry, including In the Language of My Captor, which won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Poetry and was a finalist for the National Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the William Carlos Williams Award. His collection, Sometimes I Never Suffered, was short-listed for the T. S. Eliot Prize. McCrae is the recipient of a Whiting Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He teaches at Columbia University and lives in New York City.

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