Two Appearances After the Resurrection

By Shane McCrae

McCrae's latest collection considers the nature of perception and experiments with form and punctuation.

This is a book about perceiving and being perceived. The various subjects of these poems are viewed by an artist, a devil, a soul floating out of a body it had inhabited, a god fed up with her husband's infidelities, and a father whose young child has COVID-19. The poems of Two Appearances After the Resurrection are haunted by the question of what one ought to do with their perceivability.

After a decade of publishing poems almost exclusively utilizing no punctuation aside from the slash, Shane McCrae began including semi-regular punctuation in his 2023 book, The Many Hundreds of the Scent. He continues that project in Two Appearances After the Resurrection. Here, he further explores the consequences--especially the rhythmical consequences--of the change. Throughout these poems, McCrae perceives and implicitly considers his own shifting approaches to writing.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1632431726
• ISBN13: 9781632431721
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: Omnidawn
• Length: 56 Pages