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A stunning new collection of poetry from Shane McCrae, winner of the Whiting Writers'' Award.

Shane McCrae, one of the most powerful voices in contemporary poetry, returns with The Many Hundreds of the Scent, an urgent new collection that brims with lyric force. He expands both the poetic and the personal mythologies that he has been constructing over the course of his career. In addition to introducing his readers to the thin king / who eats the world, McCrae invites them to bear witness to his tangle of childhood memories. In brutal, sorrowful lines, he recounts being kidnapped by his white supremacist maternal grandparents from his Black father as a boy. O reader, listener, stay, McCrae writes. You are now evidence.

In The Many Hundreds of the Scent, Homeric figures mingle with those who populate the poet's world. Helen weighs Paris's spear in her hand and bloodies a raging Achilles; Penelope burns her loom each night; Dido watches Aeneas's ship

The Many Hundreds of the Scent

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      Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
      Published 17 October 2023
      ISBN-13 9780374607197
      978-0374607197
      ISBN-10 0374607192

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      A stunning new collection of poetry from Shane McCrae, winner of the Whiting Writers'' Award.

      Shane McCrae, one of the most powerful voices in contemporary poetry, returns with The Many Hundreds of the Scent, an urgent new collection that brims with lyric force. He expands both the poetic and the personal mythologies that he has been constructing over the course of his career. In addition to introducing his readers to the thin king / who eats the world, McCrae invites them to bear witness to his tangle of childhood memories. In brutal, sorrowful lines, he recounts being kidnapped by his white supremacist maternal grandparents from his Black father as a boy. O reader, listener, stay, McCrae writes. You are now evidence.

      In The Many Hundreds of the Scent, Homeric figures mingle with those who populate the poet's world. Helen weighs Paris's spear in her hand and bloodies a raging Achilles; Penelope burns her loom each night; Dido watches Aeneas's ship

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