| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
83 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
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 -- King of the Sadnesses of Dogs -- Eurydice on the Art of Poetry -- Husbands -- For Melissa Asleep Upstairs -- Nowhere Is Local -- Professor -- 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 -- Hastily Assembled Angel on Embodiment -- Jim Limber on Silence -- Cain Named the Animal -- Lost Tribe of Eden -- Constantly Throwing Lip -- Lost Tribe of Eden at the Beginning of the Days of Blood -- Robot Bird Tells Me How It Is I Am in Hell -- Beginning of Time -- Reformation -- In Which the Beginning of Time Happens in a Different Way -- Dream at the End of the Dream. |
| Summary |
"A new poetry collection by Shane McCrae"-- Provided by publisher. |
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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." |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 21st century.
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American poetry. |
| Chronological Term |
21st century |
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21st century. |
| Genre/Form |
Poetry.
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Poetry.
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| ISBN |
9780374602857 (hardcover) |
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0374602859 (hardcover) |
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