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Hex and Other Poems

Shane McCrae

Shane McCrae is a writer celebrated for crafting a unique poetics, conversing deeply with canon while speaking in a voice unmistakably his own: postmodern and lyrical, estranged and hyperexact. Oceanic sentences deconstruct themselves on the fly, circling ideas to reach their nuclei. This new pamphlet is a powerful examination of race and where it lives, of American white supremacy, of art's collective consciousness, tapping into the timeless dialogues between art and mortality, power and personal identity. Hex and Other Poems is a whirlwind and a wake-up call: galvanising the reader, speaking new thought into being.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Bad Betty Press
  • Publish Date: Jun 30th, 2022
  • Pages: 36
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.50in - 5.50in - 0.09in - 0.13lb
  • EAN: 9781913268282
  • Categories: American - African American & BlackSubjects & Themes - General

About the Author

McCrae, Shane: - Shane McCrae's most recent books are Sometimes I Never Suffered, a finalist for the Maya Angelou Book Award, the T. S. Eliot Prize, and the Rilke Prize, and Cain Named the Animal, both published by Corsair Books. He has received a Lannan Literary Award, a Whiting Writer's Award, an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, a Pushcart Prize, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. He lives in New York City and teaches at Columbia University.

Praise for this book

"In Hex pain and love are drawn into strange and complex association. The inferno of McCrae's metaphysical intelligence is matched only by his Dantesque formal skills." Sasha Dugdale