The Gilded Auction Block: Poems

by Shane McCrae

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374162255
• ISBN13: 9780374162252
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.3"