Cain Named the Animal Memoirs and perseverance

and perseverance

swore to block any further government spending on the project

including an oratorio based on Mississippi "barkeep

it’s up to his bright and adventurous granddaughter

in the years to come

Cain Named the Animal Memoirs and perseveranceA prophetic new collection of poems from Shane McCrae, a shrewd composer of American stories (The New Yorker). Writing you I give the death I take I 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 and specific pasts, he writes into and through the wounds that we