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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Shane McCraePublisher: Canongate Books Imprint: Canongate Books Edition: Main Dimensions: Width: 14.40cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 22.00cm Weight: 0.388kg ISBN: 9781838854195ISBN 10: 1838854193 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 14 September 2023 Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsPulling the Chariot of the Sun is the kind of story that pulls you right in with its voice, the kind of book that sways you with heart-wrenching honesty and beautiful music. There is something magnetic to this storytelling, which gives us an incantation of memory that is as moving as it is spellbinding. For what tears up the family in this book is what tears up this country still, prevents it from finding itself. McCrae's voice is vulnerable and direct and precise, the voice of a poet who teaches us again what musical prose can do. This is such a compelling and necessary book -- ILYA KAMINSKY Shane McCrae's powerful, indelible poet's voice has now extended to the memoir, and how fortunate are we that the very things that distinguish his verse - truth-telling, sharp observation, more than a sense of the moment, profundity worn lightly - grace his harrowing and enlightening tale about race and what makes an American family and why. An essential story for our times -- HILTON ALS A book by a man who was kidnapped as a child, and raised by his kidnappers, and no further attempt to describe what's in these pages can prepare the reader for the hardness of the story nor the dazzling light of McCrae's prose -- JOHN DARNIELLE Praise for Sometimes I Never Suffered: Out of personal history, out of the history of an enduringly fractured nation and out of the deep history of language, Shane McCrae is writing the most urgent, electric poems of his generation -- GARTH GREENWELL 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 ALAMEDDINE Shane McCrae is a shrewd composer of American stories . . . What makes McCrae's compositions so ingenious are their marvels of prosody and form . . 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 * * The New Yorker * * Shane McCrae has many gifts as a poet, but among his most hypnotizing is his ability to create poems that simultaneously blare and beacon . . . McCrae's words arrive with a Miltonic fury, and yet they are so contemporary and critical for our present, strange world -- NICK RIPATRAZONE * * The Millions * * In McCrae's timely observations, the American Dream is an illusion that silences its victims * * Publishers Weekly * * Shane McCrae's powerful, indelible poet's voice has now extended to the memoir, and how fortunate are we that the very things that distinguish his verse - truth-telling, sharp observation, more than a sense of the moment, profundity worn lightly - grace his harrowing and enlightening tale about race, and what makes an American family, and why. An essential story for our times -- HILTON ALS Praise for Sometimes I Never Suffered: Out of personal history, out of the history of an enduringly fractured nation, and out of the deep history of language, Shane McCrae is writing the most urgent, electric poems of his generation -- GARTH GREENWELL 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 risque; intelligent, not clever; deep, not jocular surface play. He is sui generis -- RABIH ALAMEDDINE Shane McCrae is a shrewd composer of American stories . . . What makes McCrae's compositions so ingenious are their marvels of prosody and form . . 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 * * The New Yorker * * Shane McCrae has many gifts as a poet, but among his most hypnotizing is his ability to create poems that simultaneously blare and beacon . . . McCrae's words arrive with a Miltonic fury, and yet they are so contemporary and critical for our present, strange world -- NICK RIPATRAZONE * * The Millions * * In McCrae's timely observations, the American Dream is an illusion that silences its victims * * Publishers Weekly * * Shane McCrae's powerful, indelible poet's voice has now extended to the memoir, and how fortunate are we that the very things that distinguish his verse - truth-telling, sharp observation, more than a sense of the moment, profundity worn lightly - grace his harrowing and enlightening tale about race and what makes an American family and why. An essential story for our times -- HILTON ALS Praise for Sometimes I Never Suffered: Out of personal history, out of the history of an enduringly fractured nation and out of the deep history of language, Shane McCrae is writing the most urgent, electric poems of his generation -- GARTH GREENWELL 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 risque; intelligent, not clever; deep, not jocular surface play. He is sui generis -- RABIH ALAMEDDINE Shane McCrae is a shrewd composer of American stories . . . What makes McCrae's compositions so ingenious are their marvels of prosody and form . . 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 * * The New Yorker * * Shane McCrae has many gifts as a poet, but among his most hypnotizing is his ability to create poems that simultaneously blare and beacon . . . McCrae's words arrive with a Miltonic fury, and yet they are so contemporary and critical for our present, strange world -- NICK RIPATRAZONE * * The Millions * * In McCrae's timely observations, the American Dream is an illusion that silences its victims * * Publishers Weekly * * Author InformationShane McCrae's most recent books are The Gilded Auction Block and Sometimes I Never Suffered. He has received a Whiting Award, a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Lannan Literary Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He lives in New York City and teaches at Columbia University. @akasomeguy Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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