The Gilded Auction Block: Poems Paperback / softback
by Shane McCrae
Paperback / softback
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'Beautifully up-to-date, old-fashioned work, where the dignity of English meters meets, as in a mosh pit, the vitality - and often the brutality - of American speech' Dan Chiasson, New Yorker'Shane McCrae is one of our best, a great poet who mines the rhythms and vernacular of America, excavating the most exquisite of poems.
His work is risky, not risqué; intelligent, not clever; deep, not jocular surface play.
He is sui generis' Rabih AlameddineI'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 book's four sections, McCrae alternately responds directly to Donald Trump and contextualizes him historically and personally, exploding the illusions of freedom of both black and white Americans.
A moving, incisive, and frightening exploration of both the legacy and the current state of white supremacy, The Gilded Auction Block is a book about the present that reaches into the past and stretches toward the future.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:112 pages
- Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
- Publication Date:06/08/2020
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- ISBN:9781472155825
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:112 pages
- Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
- Publication Date:06/08/2020
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- ISBN:9781472155825