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Cain named the animal / Shane McCrae.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022Copyright date: ©2022Edition: First editionDescription: 83 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780374602857
  • 0374602859
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Love Poems and Others -- Arm in the Excavators Shovel -- Whom I Have Blocked Out -- To Make a Wound -- A Letter to Lucie About Lucie -- Worldful -- To My Mother's Father -- The King of the Sadnesses of Dogs -- Eurydice on the Art of Poetry -- Husbands -- For Melissa Asleep Upstairs -- Nowhere Is Local -- The Professor -- The Butterflies the Mountain and the Lake -- For Sylvia Twenty-Eight in July -- To Nicholas from My Absence -- Having Been Raised by My Kidnappers I Consider the Gift of Life, or A Gift from a Thief -- A Thousand Pictures -- Please Come Flying -- Vivian Maier Considers Heaven from a Bench in Rogers Beach Park Chicago -- Recapitulations -- The Hastily Assembled Angel on Embodiment -- Jim Limber on Silence -- Cain Named the Animal -- The Lost Tribe of Eden -- Constantly Throwing Lip -- The Lost Tribe of Eden at the Beginning of the Days of Blood -- The Robot Bird Tells Me How It Is I Am in Hell -- The Beginning of Time -- The Reformation -- In Which the Beginning of Time Happens in a Different Way -- The Dream at the End of the Dream.
Summary: "A new poetry collection by Shane McCrae"-- Provided by publisher.Summary: 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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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 811.6 M132 Available 33111010869010
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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."

"A new poetry collection by Shane McCrae"-- Provided by publisher.

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."

Machine generated contents note: Love Poems and Others -- Arm in the Excavators Shovel -- Whom I Have Blocked Out -- To Make a Wound -- A Letter to Lucie About Lucie -- Worldful -- To My Mother's Father -- The King of the Sadnesses of Dogs -- Eurydice on the Art of Poetry -- Husbands -- For Melissa Asleep Upstairs -- Nowhere Is Local -- The Professor -- The Butterflies the Mountain and the Lake -- For Sylvia Twenty-Eight in July -- To Nicholas from My Absence -- Having Been Raised by My Kidnappers I Consider the Gift of Life, or A Gift from a Thief -- A Thousand Pictures -- Please Come Flying -- Vivian Maier Considers Heaven from a Bench in Rogers Beach Park Chicago -- Recapitulations -- The Hastily Assembled Angel on Embodiment -- Jim Limber on Silence -- Cain Named the Animal -- The Lost Tribe of Eden -- Constantly Throwing Lip -- The Lost Tribe of Eden at the Beginning of the Days of Blood -- The Robot Bird Tells Me How It Is I Am in Hell -- The Beginning of Time -- The Reformation -- In Which the Beginning of Time Happens in a Different Way -- The Dream at the End of the Dream.

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