Shane McCrae's most recent books are Sometimes I Never Suffered, a finalist for the Maya Angelou Book Award, the T. S. Eliot Prize, and the Rilke Prize, and Cain Named the Animal, both published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. He has received a Lannan Literary Award, a Whiting Writer's Award, an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, a Pushcart Prize, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. He lives in New York City and teaches at Columbia University.

Other poems by Shane McCrae in Verse Daily:
January 27, 2016:   "The Calf" "Lord I have eaten and I don't..."
January 24, 2011:   "Horses Running Fast" "We married in an open field a wide..."

Books by Shane McCrae:

Other poems on the web by Shane McCrae:
Nine poems
Three poems
Four poems
"The White People in My Blood"
"In the Ditch in Which the Camera Finds My Body"
Three poems
"Banjo Yes Recalls His First Movies"

Shane McCrae on Twitter.

About Mule:

"[Mule] is a book both haunted and haunting—possessed by sound and its tremendous momentum, that somehow-suspended momentum, hypnotic in its rhythms and compelling in its headlong fall into the truth of the heart."
—Cole Swensen

"Shane McCrae admits us to the marriage of impediments... in a country that too often insists on fracture over union."
—Rachel Loden

"What a joy now to discover a voice such as Shane McCrae's, who... finds his new music, and compels us with its outbursts and heartbreak and yells and stuttering of joy and its sudden clarity of perception that is like no other. Shane McCrae is a master."
—Ilya Kaminsky

"Some books come down like gods dying to transform us out of our empty, shattered lives. Mule is such a book.... McCrae's is a living, breathing poetry made of wisdom and wrenching song."
—Katie Ford