Sometimes I Never Suffered

Spanning religious, historical, and political themes, a new collection from the acclaimed poet

Shane McCrae is the author of six previous books of poetry: The Gilded Auction Block; In the Language of My Captor, a finalist for the National Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the William Carlos Williams Award; The Animal Too Big to Kill, winner of the 2014 Lexi Rudnitsky Editor's Choice Award; Forgiveness Forgiveness; Blood; and Mule. He is the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. He teaches at Columbia University and lives in New York City.