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Sometimes I Never Suffered: Poems

Sometimes I Never Suffered: Poems

McCrae, Shane

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $18.00

ISBN10: 0374602913
ISBN13: 9780374602918
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: Aug 3 2021
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

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). Here, an angel, hastily thrown together by his fellow residents of Heaven, plummets to Earth in his first moments of consciousness. 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.

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.

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