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University of Akron Press
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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Short-listed for the 2017 National Book Award for Poetry
The poems in The Book of Endings try to make sense of, or at least come to some kind of reckoning with absence - the death of the author's mother, the absence of the beloved, the absence of an accountable god, cicadas, the dead stars arriving, the dead moon aglow in the night sky.
The poems in The Book of Endings try to make sense of, or at least come to some kind of reckoning with absence - the death of the author's mother, the absence of the beloved, the absence of an accountable god, cicadas, the dead stars arriving, the dead moon aglow in the night sky.
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Publisher
Wesleyan University Press
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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"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 plays in oppression, confronts the myth that freedom can be based upon the power to dominate others, and, in poems about the mixed-race...
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Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
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"An illustrated interpretation of Robert Frost's classic poem of loss, family bonds, and promises to keep. The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep. From the illustrator of the world's first picture book adaptation of Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken" comes a new interpretation of another classic Frost poem: "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening."...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"The Newbery Award-winning author of The Crossover pens an ode to black American triumph and tribulation, with art from a two-time Caldecott Honoree"-- Provided by publisher.
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