New and Collected Hell by Shane McCrae - ISBN: 9781472160140
Paperback
A contemporary Dante’s Hell: a searing, unforgettable journey into the abyss.

New and Collected Hell

A Poem

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  • Paperback

    112 pages

  • Release Date

    13 May 2025

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Summary

Award-winning poet of our times Shane McCrae, ‘peer to the peerless’ (New York Journal of Books), takes up and turns on its head the mantle of Dante in this contemporary vision of Hell.

Of death the muse is death the muse of Hell

Is death the muse of Heaven I don’t know

O muse of where how can I hope to go

To where I pray I’ll go sing at least tell

Shane McCrae, one of the most prophetic and powerful …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781472160140
ISBN-10:1472160142
Author:Shane McCrae
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint:Corsair
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:112
Release Date:13 May 2025
Weight:121g
Dimensions:14mm x 126mm x 196mm
A-Format
New and Collected Hell by Shane McCrae - ISBN: 9781472160140
126 × 196 mm
B-Format
C-Format
A4
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Critics Review

McCrae meshes Dante with metamorphic machines … to deliver a distinctly American hell – Philip Terry * Guardian *

About The Author

Shane McCrae

Shane McCrae is the author of several books of poetry, including In the Language of My Captor, which won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the William Carlos Williams Award; Sometimes I Never Suffered, which was short-listed for the T. S. Eliot Prize; and The Many Hundreds of the Scent. He is the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He teaches at Columbia University and lives in New York City.

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