Cain Named the Animal: Poems Literary Collections Speeches Essays American - African American & Black a fire inside her that

a fire inside her that is always hungry

Paid in Full (Eric B

to Moana finding the courage to voyage across the sea

That is until the night before Nia’s seventh birthday

Cain Named the Animal: Poems Literary Collections Speeches Essays American - African American & Black a fire inside her thatA 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