Shane McCrae Discusses “Jim Limber in Heaven”

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Kevin Young
The New Yorker: Poetry | Nov 22, 2019

Shane McCrae joins Kevin Young to to discuss his poetry sequence “Jim Limber in Heaven,” featured on newyorker.com. McCrae is a poet whose whose work has received such honors as a Whiting Award, an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, and a Lannan Literary Award. He was also a finalist for the National Book Award.

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