Cain named the animal / Shane McCrae.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McCrae, Shane, 1975- author.

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

83 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.

Summary:

"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."

Contents:

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.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780374602857

0374602859

OCLC:

1246143402