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  • Cain Named the Animal

    Poems

    by Shane McCrae ...
    A prophetic new collection of poems from Shane McCrae, "a shrewd composer of American stories" (Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker)Writing you I give the death I takeI know I should feel wounded by your deathI write to you to make a wound write backShane McCrae fashions a world of endings and infinites in Cain Named the Animal. With cyclical, rhythmic lines that create and re-create images of our shared ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In the Language of My Captor

    by Shane McCrae ...
    Series series Wesleyan Poetry Series
    Winner of the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry (2017)Acclaimed poet Shane McCrae's latest collection is a book about freedom told through stories of captivity. Historical persona poems and a prose memoir at the center of the book address the illusory freedom of both black and white Americans. In the book's three sequences, McCrae explores the role mass entertainment plays in oppression, he ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ploughshares Spring 2026 Guest-edited by Annie Finch

    by Annie Finch, Karen Winn, Molly Dektar, Jessica Roeder, Sapphire, Patricia Smith, Jane Hirshfield, Alpay Ulku, Shane McCrae, Traci Brimhall ...
    The Spring 2026 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats.The Spring 2026 issue, edited by Annie Finch, features poetry and prose by Traci Brimhall, Molly Dektar, Jane ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sometimes I Never Suffered

    Poems

    by Shane McCrae ...
    Spanning religious, historical, and political themes, a new collection from the award-winning poetI think now more than halfOf life is death but I can't dieEnough for all the life I seeIn 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 ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Word Made Fresh

    An Invitation to Poetry for the Church

    by Abram Van Engen ...
    Christianity Today Book Award in Culture, Poetry, and the Arts (2025)Have you ever read a book that turned your world upside down? What about a poem?Poetry has the power to enliven, challenge, change, and enrich our lives. But it can also feel intimidating, confusing, or simply "not for us." In these joyful and wise reflections, Abram Van Engen shows readers how poetry is for everyone—and how it ... Read more

    $26.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Many Hundreds of the Scent

    Poems

    by Shane McCrae ...
    A stunning new collection of poetry from Shane McCrae, winner of the Whiting Writers' Award.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. He expands both the poetic and the personal mythologies that he has been constructing over the course of his career. In addition to ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Gilded Auction Block

    Poems

    by Shane McCrae ...
    An incisive new collection of poetry on political and contemporary themesI'm made of murderers I'm madeOf nobodies and immigrants and the poorand a whole / Family the mother'sliver and her lungsIn The Gilded Auction Block, the acclaimed poet Shane McCrae considers the present moment in America on its own terms as well as for what it says about the American project and Americans themselves. In the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Pulling the Chariot of the Sun

    A Memoir of a Kidnapping

    by Shane McCrae ...
    Vulture**’s #1 Memoir of 2023**An unforgettable, “lyrical and poignant” (The Washington Post) memoir by an award-winning poet about being kidnapped from his Black father and raised by his white supremacist grandparents.When Shane McCrae was three years old, his grandparents kidnapped him and took him to suburban Texas. His mom was white and his dad was Black, and to hide his Blackness from him, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • New and Collected Hell

    A Poem

    by Shane McCrae ...
    Shane McCrae, “peer to the peerless” (New York Journal of Books), takes up and turns on its head the mantle of Dante in this contemporary vision of Hell.Of death the muse is death the muse of HellIs death the muse of Heaven I don’t knowO muse of where howcan I hope to goTo where I pray I’ll go sing at least tellShane McCrae, one of the most prophetic and powerful poetic voices of our time, has ... Read more

    Was $14.99 USD Now $11.99 USD

  • Two Appearances After the Resurrection

    by Shane McCrae ...
    McCrae’s latest collection considers the nature of perception and experiments with form and punctuation.This is a book about perceiving and being perceived. The various subjects of these poems are viewed by an artist, a devil, a soul floating out of a body it had inhabited, a god fed up with her husband’s infidelities, and a father whose young child has COVID-19. The poems of Two Appearances After ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • Only Sing

    152 Uncollected Dream Songs

    by John Berryman ...
    The never-before-published poems of one of the greatest American poets, John Berryman.John Berryman’s Dream Songs are arguably the funniest, saddest, most intricately wrought cycle of poems by an American in the twentieth century. They are also, more simply, the vibrantly sketched adventures of a uniquely American antihero named Henry. Henry falls in and out of love, and is in and out of the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Pulling the Chariot of the Sun

    A Memoir of a Kidnapping

    by Shane McCrae ...
    Narrated by Shane McCrae ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 25 min

    Vulture**’s #1 Memoir of 2023**An unforgettable, “lyrical and poignant” (The Washington Post) memoir by an award-winning poet about being kidnapped from his Black father and raised by his white supremacist grandparents.When Shane McCrae was three years old, his grandparents kidnapped him and took him to suburban Texas. His mom was white and his dad was Black, and to hide his Blackness from him, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook