Cain Named the Animal: Poems

Writing you I give the death I take

I know I should feel wounded by your death

I write to you to make a wound write back

Shane McCrae fashions a world of endings and infinites in Cain Named the Animal. With cyclical, rhythmic lines that create and re-create images of our shared and specific pasts, McCrae's work moves into and through the wounds that we remember and “stra...