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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 ...
Poems
A stunning new collection of poetry from Shane McCrae, winner of the Whiting Writers' Award. Shane McCrae, one of the most powerful voices in contempo...
Spanning religious, historical, and political themes, a new collection from the award-winning poet I think now more than half Of life is death but I c...
A Memoir of a Kidnapping
An unforgettable memoir by an award-winning poet about being kidnapped from his Black father and raised by his white supremacist grandparents. When Sh...
'Beautifully up-to-date, old-fashioned work, where the dignity of English meters meets, as in a mosh pit, the vitality - and often the brutality - of ...
"A new poetry collection by Shane McCrae"--...
"Shane McCrae's astounding third collection of poems, Blood, is a book of dramatic slave narratives that are written so close to the bone that every p...
A Poem
Award winning poet of our times Shane McCrae, 'peer to the peerless' (New York Journal of Books), takes up and turns on its head the mantle of Dante i...
Poetry. African American Studies. MULE is highly lyrical, obsessively incantatory, audaciously formal, and actually a very personal, very autobiograph...
An electric inquiry into faith, race, and poverty in America by a poet of “remarkable urgency and empathy” (Publishers Weekly). This collection, w...
A Memoir
"The Kidnappers' Boy is Shane McCrae's memoir of being kidnapped from his Black father by his white grandparents, who refused to acknowledge that he w...
" Nonfiction is a welcome offering from one of the most stunningly original poets to emerge in the last few years. Using a hauntingly lyrical syntax t...
Poetry. African American Studies. The follow up to 2013's BLOOD (Coldfront's book of the year), FORGIVENESS FORGIVENESS is a visceral poetry collectio...
Poetry. African American Studies. In Shane McCrae's IN CANAAN, he inhabits the personae of the escaped slave Margaret Garner, who, in the mid-1800s, m...
Finalist for 2012 PEN Center USA Literary Award. Finalist for 2012 PEN Center USA Literary Award. 10th anniversary edition of Shane McCrae's groundbre...
Poetry in the Pandemic
Poetry. Edited by Jeffrey Levine and Kristina Marie Darling. In this timely anthology, established and emerging poets bear powerful witness to the COV...
Vol. 01
A journal of criticism....