The Gilded Auction Block, Shane McCrae
The Gilded Auction Block, Shane McCrae
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The Gilded Auction Block
Poems

Author: Shane McCrae

Narrator: Shane McCrae

Unabridged: 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/16/2019


Synopsis

This program is read by the author.

An incisive new collection of poetry on political and contemporary themes

I’m made of murderers I’m made
Of nobodies and immigrants and the poor

and a whole / Family the mother’s
liver and her lungs

In The Gilded Auction Block, the acclaimed poet Shane McCrae considers the present moment in America on its own terms as well as for what it says about the American project and Americans themselves. In the audiobook’s four sections, McCrae alternately responds directly to Donald Trump and contextualizes him historically and personally, exploding the illusions of freedom of both black and white Americans.

A moving, incisive, and frightening exploration of both the legacy and the current state of white supremacy in this country, The Gilded Auction Block is an audiobook about the present that reaches into the past and stretches toward the future.

About Shane McCrae

Shane McCrae is the author of several books of poetry, including In the Language of My Captor, which won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Poetry and was a finalist for the National Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the William Carlos Williams Award, Sometimes I Never Suffered, which was short-listed for the T. S. Eliot Prize, and his recent collection, Cain Named the Animal. McCrae is the recipient of a Whiting Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He teaches at Columbia University and lives in New York City.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bonnie

Books like this make me wish I was a better reviewer. And a better writer. And just a better person in general. Someone worthy of trying to discuss this caliber of writing. I don't have the words to describe the beauty and eloquence of Shane McCrae's poems, existing in that delicate intersection of......more

Goodreads review by Carl

Has anything so many twists, turns, and lacerations as the history of "race" in America? In his latest collection of poems,Shane McCrae continues to explore current life in America. Raised by a white, racist Grandmother, he sits in the middle of the divide: As I had thought you loved me grand- mother......more

Goodreads review by Meagan

This was such a powerful collection. The Hell Poem is something I’ll be returning to...frequently, I think.......more