In the Language of My Captor

by Shane McCrae

Book Overview

Finalist for the 2017 National Book Award for Poetry

Winner of the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry (2017)

Acclaimed poet Shane McCrae's latest collection is a book about freedom told through stories of captivity. Historical persona poems and a prose memoir at the center of the book address the illusory freedom of both black and white Americans. In the book's three sequences, McCrae explores the role mass entertainment...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819577111
• ISBN13: 9780819577115
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 108 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.1"