Blood

Synopsis

Shane Mccrae's Astounding Third Collection Of Poems, Blood, Is A Book Of Dramatic Slave Narratives That Are Written So Close To The Bone That Every Poem Reads Like An Insider's Account Of What Happened Inside The Burning Frame Of A History Nobody Read. This Is A Treatise About Slavery In Every Conveyance Of The Word: Slavery To The Man, To The Klan, To The Child, To The Land, To A Murderous Heart, To Bad Thinking, To The Betrayed And To The Betrayer. And Every Poem Seems To Be Written From The Place Of Some Final Recognition, A Reckoning: This Is Who I Am. This Is What Happened To Me. This Is What Happened To Us, As A People. -- Review By Michael Klein, Publisher's Website. Shane Mccrae. Includes Bibliographical References.