
10th anniversary edition of Shane McCrae's groundbreaking first collection of poetry, Mule, first published in 2011. With new poems by the author and an introduction by Victoria Chang.

Poetry. African American Studies. MULE is highly lyrical, obsessively incantatory, audaciously formal, and actually a very personal, very autobiographical book. In it, the author addresses his at the time failing second marriage (which he is no longer in), his son's autism, his...