Cain Named the Animal Up to Age 2 Ulysses knows better than to

Ulysses knows better than to tempt fate

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Cain Named the Animal Up to Age 2 Ulysses knows better than toA prophetic new collection of poems from Shane McCrae, a shrewd composer of American stories (The New Yorker). Writing you I give the death I take I know I should feel wounded by your deathI write to you to make a wound write backShane 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, he writes into and through the wounds that we