The Many Hundreds of the Scent
$37.63
- Paperback
96 pages
- Release Date
26 February 2024
Summary
A Telegraph Best Book of the Year 2023
‘One of the most erudite and inventive poets of our time’ *Guardian*
Shane McCrae, one of the most powerful voices in contemporary poetry, returns with The Many Hundreds of the Scent, 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 read…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781472158031 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1472158032 |
| Author: | Shane McCrae |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Corsair |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 96 |
| Release Date: | 26 February 2024 |
| Weight: | 123g |
| Dimensions: | 214mm x 134mm x 12mm |
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Critics Review
‘In McCrae’s hands, words are like tea leaves he will steep until every scent and flavour is extracted… This poet cannot be paraphrased; he must be read’ * Guardian, Poetry Books of the Month *
About The Author
Shane McCrae
Shane McCrae’s most recent books are Cain Named the Animal (2022) Sometimes I Never Suffered (2020) which was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize, The Gilded Auction Block (2019) and In the Language of My Captor (Wesleyan University Press, 2017), which won the 2018 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Poetry, and was a finalist for the National Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the William Carlos Williams Award. He has received a Whiting Writer’s Award, a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Lannan Literary Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He lives in New York City and teaches at Columbia University.
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