The Gilded Auction Block: Poems

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 the book’s four sections, McCrae alternately responds directly to Donald Trump and contextualizes ...