Cain Named The Animal by Shane McCrae Robert Fitterman perhaps more vivid than before

perhaps more vivid than before

Histories intertwine and stories are re-framed

His celebrated memoir An Aran Keening (2001) is about a year’s stay on one of the islands of that Archipelago

These poems course through sonnets and ghazals

Cain Named The Animal by Shane McCrae Robert Fitterman perhaps more vivid than beforeIn McCraes hands, poetry is reclamation. It is also transport: writing a way out and through Kate Kellaway, GuardianConfirms McCrae as one of the most erudite and inventive poets of our time Kit Fan, GuardianWriting 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