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His works, including \u003cem\u003eNew and Collected Hell\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eTwo Appearances After the Resurrection\u003c\/em\u003e, delve into complex themes with an unflinching honesty and lyrical mastery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders drawn to arts and culture, as well as memoir and biography, will find McCrae’s writing both intellectually engaging and emotionally resonant, offering a profound reflection on personal and collective experience.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"pulling-the-chariot-of-the-sun-by-shane-mccrae-9781838854195","title":"Pulling the Chariot of the Sun","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Shane McCrae was eighteen months old, he was removed from his parents and taken to suburban Texas. His mother was white and his dad was Black, and to hide his Blackness from him, his maternal grandparents stole him. In the years that followed, they manipulated and controlled him, believing they were doing what was best for him. His grandmother loved Shane but hated people who looked like him. His grandfather policed any perceived signs of Blackness his grandson showed. In their house, Blackness would always be the worst thing about him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePulling the Chariot of the Sun\u003c\/i\u003e is a revelatory account of what it can mean to be Black in America, written with virtuosity and heart by one of the finest poets writing today. This memoir offers acute insight into the larger story of a people stolen from their homes, dominated by white supremacy and lied to about their own history. And it illuminates how we all might be made whole again, through a tireless search for the truth and the joyful pursuit of what we love.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46845555245292,"sku":"9781838854195","price":39.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/19526773482842.jpg?v=1758885936"},{"product_id":"two-appearances-after-the-resurrection-by-shane-mccrae-9781632431721","title":"Two Appearances After the Resurrection","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMcCrae's latest collection considers the nature of perception and experiments with form and punctuation.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a book about perceiving and being perceived. The various subjects of these poems are viewed by an artist, a devil, a soul floating out of a body it had inhabited, a god fed up with her husband's infidelities, and a father whose young child has COVID-19. The poems of \u003cem\u003eTwo Appearances After the Resurrection\u003c\/em\u003e are haunted by the question of what one ought to do with their perceivability.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAfter a decade of publishing poems almost exclusively utilising no punctuation aside from the slash, Shane McCrae began including semi-regular punctuation in his 2023 book, \u003cem\u003eThe Many Hundreds of the Scent\u003c\/em\u003e. He continues that project in \u003cem\u003eTwo Appearances After the Resurrection\u003c\/em\u003e. Here, he further explores the consequences—especially the rhythmical consequences—of the change. Throughout these poems, McCrae perceives and implicitly considers his own shifting approaches to writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46871583195372,"sku":"9781632431721","price":31.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/5564703482769.jpg?v=1759885152"},{"product_id":"new-and-collected-hell-by-shane-mccrae-9781472160140","title":"New and Collected Hell","description":"\u003cb\u003eAward winning poet of our times Shane McCrae, 'peer to the peerless' (\u003ci\u003eNew York Journal of Books\u003c\/i\u003e), takes up and turns on its head the mantle of Dante in this contemporary vision of Hell.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eOf death the muse is death the muse of Hell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eIs death the muse of Heaven I don't know\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eO muse of where howcan I hope to go\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eTo where I pray I'll go sing at least tell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShane McCrae, one of the most prophetic and powerful poetic voices of our time, has created a twenty-first-century epic in \u003ci\u003eNew and Collected Hell\u003c\/i\u003e. As David Woo wrote in Poetry, 'McCrae's poems allude to literary precursors like Dante, Milton, and the Bible, but the voice is unabashedly of our time . . . By seeking to heal the rift in his own identity, McCrae has listened intently to the literary echoes emanating from the English language and transmuted them through his own dynamic voice.' Here, he gathers new and previous work as a culmination of his long-standing poetic project: a new and unforgettable journey through Hell. McCrae's work is indelible, and this collection brings his searing vision to new depths.","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47362933162220,"sku":"9781472160140","price":27.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/3738923482712.jpg?v=1772903933"},{"product_id":"the-many-hundreds-of-the-scent-by-shane-mccrae-9781472158031","title":"The Many Hundreds of the Scent","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003ci\u003eTELEGRAPH\u003c\/i\u003e BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'One of the most erudite and inventive poets of our time'\u003ci\u003e Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShane McCrae, one of the most powerful voices in contemporary poetry, returns with \u003ci\u003eThe Many Hundreds of the Scent\u003c\/i\u003e, an urgent new collection that brims with lyric force. He expands both the poetic and the personal mythologies that he has been constructing over the course of his career; in addition to introducing his readers to 'the thin king \/ who eats the world,' McCrae invites them to bear witness to his tangle of childhood memories. In brutal, sorrowful lines, he recounts being kidnapped by his white supremacist maternal grandparents from his Black father as a boy. 'O reader, listener, stay,' McCrae writes. 'You are now evidence.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Many Hundreds of the Scent\u003c\/i\u003e, Homeric figures mingle with those that populate the poet's world. Helen weighs Paris's spear in her hand and bloodies a raging Achilles; Penelope burns her loom each night; Dido watches Aeneas's ship burn on the horizon. A strikingly original and engaging poet, McCrae continually surprises - the collection includes a series of poems about the advent of post-rock and \u003ci\u003eHex\u003c\/i\u003e, the debut album of the band Bark Psychosis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith this collection, he has once more crafted an extraordinarily affecting book of poetry. As Kate Kellaway writes in the \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e, 'In McCrae's hands, poetry is reclamation. It is also transport: writing a way out and through.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47384042733804,"sku":"9781472158031","price":34.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/cb5b36fab8dc81c7eafc37ec0f663880.jpg?v=1773436651"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/collections\/shane-mccrae.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}