Nonfiction
Nonfiction by Shane McCrae, published by Black Lawrence Press in 2014, is a collection of poetry that explores the complex interplay between truth and fiction, as well as the nuances of personal identity. This edition, comprising 29 pages, delves into themes of biography, personal memoirs, and the intricacies of family and relationships, all while reflecting on broader social issues such as discrimination and the African American experience.
Readers will encounter a series of poems that navigate the tension between extremes, capturing moments of uncertainty and the potential for hope. The speakers in these works find themselves in challenging situations, articulating a balance between overcoming and being overwhelmed by their circumstances. Through this exploration, McCrae’s poetry emphasizes the importance of possibility and the transformative power of self-reflection, inviting readers to engage with the complexities of their own narratives.
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Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. African American Studies. In Shane McCrae’s NONFICTION, the self is repeatedly re-figured as the site of rupture between truth and fiction, present and past, first- person and third-person–the rupture in which the dichotomies we live by, the dichotomies that erase us, originate. The speakers of these poems inhabit impossible situations, and the poems themselves speak neither of overcoming, nor of being overcome by, these impossibilities, but of the moment of equilibrium between extremes, the moment of uncertainty from which the future emerges. As McCrae writes at the end of his two-part poem on Solomon Northup, “in the darkness / I after a while couldn’t be sure / My eyes were open.” These poems assert, and foreground, possibility; the rupture they describe is hope.
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