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Rapture: Poems

Rapture: Poems

McCray, Sjohnna

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General Poetry

Publisher Price: $16.00

ISBN10: 1555977375
ISBN13: 9781555977375
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: Apr 5 2016
Pages: 72
Weight: 0.20
Height: 0.20 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Awards: Walt Whitman Award

Because I can never say anything
plainly. Because I always stutter
politely. Because there's always the chatter

before the kiss.
--from In Need of Subtitles

In this award-winning debut, Sjohnna McCray movingly recounts a life born out of wartime to a Korean mother and an American father serving during the Vietnam War. Their troubled histories, and McCray's own, are told with lyric passion and the mythic undercurrents of discovering one's own identity, one's own desires. What emerges is a self- and family portrait of grief and celebration, one that insists on our lives as anything, please, but singular. Rapture is an extraordinary first collection, with poems of rare grace and feeling.

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