Sometimes I Never Suffered
A profound exploration of race, history, and the afterlife from an acclaimed poet
In Sometimes I Never Suffered, his seventh collection of poems, Shane McCrae continues to be "a shrewd composer of American stories" (The New Yorker). An angel, hastily thrown together by his fellow residents of Heaven, plummets to Earth in his first moments of consciousness. Jim Limber, the adopted mixed-race son of ...
A profound exploration of race, history, and the afterlife from an acclaimed poet
In Sometimes I Never Suffered, his seventh collection of poems, Shane McCrae continues to be "a shrewd composer of American stories" (The New Yorker). An angel, hastily thrown together by his fellow residents of Heaven, plummets to Earth in his first moments of consciousness. Jim Limber, the adopted mixed-race son of ...
