A stunning new collection of poetry from Shane McCrae, winner of the Whiting Writers\' Award.
It is also transport: writing a way out and through..
As Kate Kellaway writes in The Guardian , In McCrae\'s hands, poetry is reclamation.
With this collection, he has once more crafted an extraordinarily affecting book of poetry.
A strikingly original and engaging poet, Mccrae continually surprises--the collection includes a series of Poems about the advent of post-rock and Hex , the debut album of the English band Bark Psychosis.
Helen weighs Paris\'s spear in her hand and bloodies a raging Achilles
Penelope burns her loom each night
Dido watches Aeneas\'s ship burn on the horizon.
In The Many Hundreds of the Scent , Homeric figures mingle with those who populate the poet\'s world.
You are now evidence.
O reader, listener, stay, Mccrae writes.
In brutal, sorrowful lines, he recounts being kidnapped by his white supremacist maternal grandparents from his Black father as a boy.
In addition to introducing his readers to the thin king / who eats the world, Mccrae invites them to bear witness to his tangle of childhood memories.
He expands both the poetic and the personal mythologies that he has been constructing over the course of his career.
Shane McCrae, one of the most powerful voices in contemporary poetry, returns with The Many Hundreds of the Scent , an urgent new collection that brims with lyric force.
A stunning new collection of poetry from Shane McCrae, winner of the Whiting Writers\' Award
