5 Inches (D) Weight. As he writes, "God first thought time itself / Was flawed but time was God's first mirror. Cain Named the Animal - by Shane McCrae 25.49When purchased online Out of Stock About this item Specifications Dimensions (Overall):9.0 Inches (H) x 5.5 Inches (W) x. 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. 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).Ĭain 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. Shane McCrae fashions a world of endings and infinites in Cain Named the Animal. I write to you to make a wound write back I know I should feel wounded by your death Divided into three sections, the second, entitled ‘Recapitulations’ and the third ‘Cain Named the Animal’ continue ideas begun in an epic poem in earlier collections. A prophetic new collection of poems from Shane McCrae, "a shrewd composer of American stories" (Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker) Cain Named the Animal is McCrae’s eighth collection.
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