Cain Named the Animal: Poems Poetry_Gift_Guide When she visits his hometown

When she visits his hometown to teach at a weeklong cooking conference

And in the city of Tevanne

and the people trying to survive

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" His meditative ‘conversation’ poems

Cain Named the Animal: Poems Poetry_Gift_Guide When she visits his hometownA 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 take I know I should feel wounded by your death I write to you to make a wound write back Shane 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