{"product_id":"sometimes-i-never-suffered-poems-9780374602918","title":"Sometimes I Never Suffered: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSpanning religious, historical, and political themes, the seventh collection from the award-winning poet\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eI think now more than half\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOf life is death but I can't die\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEnough for all the life I see\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eSometimes I Never Suffered\u003c\/i\u003e, his seventh collection of poems, Shane McCrae remains \"a shrewd composer of American stories\" (Dan Chiasson, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e). Here, an angel, hastily thrown together by his fellow residents of Heaven, plummets to Earth in his first moments of consciousness. Jim Limber, the adopted mixed-race son of Jefferson Davis, wanders through the afterlife, reckoning with the nuances of America's racial history, as well as his own. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eSometimes I Never Suffered\u003c\/i\u003e is a search for purpose and atonement, freedom and forgiveness, imagining eternity not as an escape from the past or present, but as a reverberating record and as the culmination of time's manifold potential to mend.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eShane McCrae\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of several books of poetry: \u003ci\u003eThe Gilded Auction Block\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eIn the Language of My Captor\u003c\/i\u003e, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the William Carlos Williams Award; \u003ci\u003eThe Animal Too Big to Kill\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the 2014 Lexi Rudnitsky \/ Editor's Choice Award; \u003ci\u003eForgiveness Forgiveness\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eBlood\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eMule\u003c\/i\u003e. 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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50511442215186,"sku":"9780374602918","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ebcd023b-6aec-4fd7-be1a-21bf9c5c65cb.jpg?v=1730946850","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/sometimes-i-never-suffered-poems-9780374602918","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}