Shane McCrae

Biography

Shane McCrae is the author of The Gilded Auction Block (FSG, 2019) and the forthcoming Sometimes I Never Suffered (FSG, 2020). He has received a Whiting Award, a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Lannan Literary Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. He lives in New York City and teaches at Columbia University.

See Work

POETRY / Winter 2019

Heaven in Heaven

By Shane McCrae

I see visions        in my head of Heaven 

I see what I’m pretty sure is Heaven 

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POETRY / Winter 2019

Jesus and the Mongrel Dog

By Shane McCrae

I still don’t know if Jesus was the dog or Jesus

See Jesus        doesn’t make himself

Apparent like I might have thought he would’ve

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POETRY / Winter 2019

Jim Limber Refuses to Enter Heaven until He Has Lived a Happy Life

By Shane McCrae

I got to Heaven and I won’t believe it

’Cause nobody in Heaven’s gonna make 

A fool of me

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