Cain Named the Animal: Poems Literary Collections Speeches Essays American - African American & Black Pura Belpré Author Award Honor

Pura Belpré Author Award Honor - American Library Association (ALA)

That is until the night before Nia’s seventh birthday

the couple fled Fauquier County to live in Maryland

This book contains Biblical proof

and eating birthday cake are also provided

Cain Named the Animal: Poems Literary Collections Speeches Essays American - African American & Black Pura Belpré Author Award HonorA prophetic new collection of poems from Shane McCrae, a shrewd composer of American stories" (Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker)Writing you I give the death I takeI 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, McCrae's work moves into and