Shane McCrae, the Kidnapped Child Who Became a Poet
At age 3, Shane McCrae was taken from his Black father by his white grandparents — a rupture he explores in a new memoir.
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At age 3, Shane McCrae was taken from his Black father by his white grandparents — a rupture he explores in a new memoir.
Image Journal. His most recent book is Longing for an Absent God: Faith and Doubt in Great American Fiction.See All Articles Sometimes I Never Suffered, the latest book by the poet Shane McCrae, enters a rich literary tradition of angels and still manages to offer a new, illuminating perspective. McCrae’s ambitious work arises from a Christian perspective, one that is not wracked with doubt but steeled in wonder. In an interview published last year by The Millions, McCrae stated, “I find the mystery(ies) of God overpoweringly attractive—when thinking about God, one inhabits a space in...