Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
The Many Hundreds of the Scent: Poems

The Many Hundreds of the Scent: Poems

McCrae, Shane

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $17.00

ISBN10: 037461394X
ISBN13: 9780374613945
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: Oct 8 2024
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.20
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.20
Language: English

A stunning new collection of poetry from Shane McCrae, winner of the Whiting Writers' Award.

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 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.

In The Many Hundreds of the Scent, Homeric figures mingle with those who 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 Hex, the debut album of the English band Bark Psychosis. With this collection, he has once more crafted an extraordinarily affecting book of poetry. As Kate Kellaway writes in The Guardian, In McCrae's hands, poetry is reclamation. It is also transport: writing a way out and through.

Also from

McCrae, Shane

View All

Also in

General Poetry

View All