{"product_id":"blood","title":"Blood","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Probably the real story of race in the United States (like all real stories) can only be written by a poet. And Shane McCrae has done it.\u003cstrong\u003e \u003cem\u003eBLOOD\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e is an epic that spans three centuries. \u003cem\u003eBLOOD\u003c\/em\u003e is so formally innovative that you don't quite understand how it achieves its effects. \u003cem\u003eBLOOD\u003c\/em\u003e is so utterly clear it makes you cry. \u003cem\u003eBLOOD\u003c\/em\u003e is almost impossibly empathetic. Moving from sequences based on slave narratives and Federal Writers Project oral histories to monologues by white racists to autobiography and the poet's family history, \u003cem\u003eBLOOD\u003c\/em\u003e is beautiful and significant, subtle and blunt. It asks to be read and reread. We need this book.\"—\u003cstrong\u003eKathleen Ossip\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShane McCrae \u003c\/strong\u003egrew up in Texas and California. The first in his family to graduate from college, McCrae earned a BA at Linfield College, an MA at the University of Iowa, an MFA at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and a JD at Harvard Law School.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMcCrae is the author of several poetry collections, including \u003cem\u003eMule\u003c\/em\u003e (2011); \u003cem\u003eBlood \u003c\/em\u003e(2013); \u003cem\u003eThe Animal Too Big to Kill\u003c\/em\u003e (2015); \u003cem\u003eIn the Language of My Captor \u003c\/em\u003e(Wesleyan University Press, 2017), which was a finalist for the National Book Award; and \u003cem\u003eThe Gilded Auction Block\u003c\/em\u003e (2019). His work has also been featured in \u003cem\u003eThe Best American Poetry 2010\u003c\/em\u003e, edited by Amy Gerstler, and his honors include a Whiting Writers' Award and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Itasca Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54526381326611,"sku":"9781934819302","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0948\/3521\/2563\/files\/9781934819302ita.jpg?v=1785852248","url":"https:\/\/danuc.net\/products\/blood","provider":"Danu's Wardrobe","version":"1.0","type":"link"}