Cain Named the Animal: Poems Literary Collections Speeches Essays American - African American & Black listening to the inspiring voices

listening to the inspiring voices of young children

interprets this beloved poem in vivid sepia photographs that capture the glory

That is until the night before Nia’s seventh birthday

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

Paid in Full (Eric B

Cain Named the Animal: Poems Literary Collections Speeches Essays American - African American & Black listening to the inspiring voicesA 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