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 ).
He teaches at Columbia University and lives in New York City..
He is the recipient of a Whiting Writers\' Award and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.
About author(s): Shane McCrae is the author of several books of poetry: The Gilded Auction Block
In the Language of My Captor , which was a finalist for the National Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the William Carlos Williams Award
The Animal Too Big to Kill , winner of the 2014 Lexi Rudnitsky / Editor\'s Choice Award
Forgiveness Forgiveness
Blood ; and Mule .
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.
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.
Here, an angel, hastily thrown together by his fellow residents of Heaven, plummets to Earth in his first moments of consciousness.
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 )
