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Publication Date
2020-02-18
Pages
112
ISBN
9780374538712

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0374538719
ISBN-13
9780374538712
eBay Product ID (ePID)
9038291329

Product Key Features

Book Title
Gilded Auction Block : Poems
Number of Pages
112 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2020
Topic
American / African American
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Poetry
Author
Shane Mccrae
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.2 in
Item Weight
4.9 Oz
Item Length
8.3 in
Item Width
5.4 in

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"Shane McCrae is a shrewd composer of American stories . . . He is a prospector for speech rhythms, collecting his material wherever he can. But American attics are full of old boxes of diaries and letters; and testimony, no matter how arresting, is not itself poetry. What makes McCrae's compositions so ingenious are their marvels of prosody and form, learned from the English Renaissance poems that he read in libraries when he was just starting out. The result is 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 has been creating ambitious work that demands--earns--our attention. I often feel out of time when I am reading his words; they arrive with a Miltonic fury, and yet they are so contemporary and critical for our present, strange world." --Nick Ripatrazone, The Millions "This sprawling yet astute collection revisits the brutal history that enabled the election of Trump . . . In McCrae's timely observations, the American Dream is an illusion that silences its victims." -- Publishers Weekly, "Shane McCrae is a shrewd composer of American stories . . . He is a prospector for speech rhythms, collecting his material wherever he can. But American attics are full of old boxes of diaries and letters; and testimony, no matter how arresting, is not itself poetry. What makes McCrae's compositions so ingenious are their marvels of prosody and form, learned from the English Renaissance poems that he read in libraries when he was just starting out. The result is 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
Table Of Content
The President Visits the Storm 1 I Fight Him (Ann Parker) Everything I Know About Blackness I Learned from Donald Trump Black Joe Arpaio Display Food Sonnet for Desiree Fairooz Prosecuted for Laughing at Jeff Sessions' Confirmation Hearing We'll Go No More a Roving After Carrie Kinsey's Letter to Theodore Roosevelt Purchase If You See Something, Say Something The Role of the Negro in the Work of Art The Brown Horse Ariel After a Photograph of a Town House in the Lafayette Park Residential District Detroit Awaiting the Guns Guns Will Be Guns 2 Remembering My White Grandmother Who Loved Me and Hated Everybody Like Me Forgiveness Grief Hatred Seawhere Immigrants 3 The Hell Poem 4 The Monster Made of America Dreams of America After the Skinny Repeal Is Voted Down Notes Acknowledgments
Synopsis
An incisive new collection of poetry on political and contemporary themes I'm made of murderers I'm made Of nobodies and immigrants and the poor and a whole / Family the mother's liver and her lungs In 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 in this country, The Gilded Auction Block is a book about the present that reaches into the past and stretches toward the future.

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