{"product_id":"sometimes-i-never-suffered-shane-mccrae-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\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Shane McCrae\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0374602913\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374602918\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/03\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.40d","brand":"Shane McCrae","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44173039501567,"sku":"9780374602918","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0c234ce9-0fa5-447c-b0a8-5be2a38ddae2.jpg?v=1689790714","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/sometimes-i-never-suffered-shane-mccrae-9780374602918","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}