Hex and Other Poems

Shane McCrae is a writer celebrated for crafting a unique poetics, conversing deeply with canon while speaking in a voice unmistakably his own: postmodern and lyrical, estranged and hyperexact. Oceanic sentences deconstruct themselves on the fly, circling ideas to reach their nuclei. This new pamphlet is a powerful examination of race and where it lives, of American white supremacy, of art's collective consciousness, tapping into the timeless dialogues between art and mortality, power and p...