Rapture. Sjohnna McCray. Graywolf Press; April 72 pp; $ Buy: paperback | Kindle. “Father and Son by Window,” the opening poem in Sjohnna McCray’s debut poetry collection Rapture, has an ephemeral feel; the poem rises like a plume of smoke. “You sing, soft winds and blue seat,” it begins, a line more about sound and mood than action, with such rich consonance that it practically begs to be . 5 rows · · Rapture announces a prodigious talent and a huge human heart.”—Tracy K. Smith, from her judge’s Brand: Graywolf Press. · Rapture: Poems is a set of poems that contains such beautiful phrases. The way McCray features people in his poetry is a unique style of writing. Many of the poems are centralized around nature and they are remarkably descriptive. McCray does not shy away from writing the world around us with a new perspective that leaves the reader wanting more/5.
Rapture: Poems by Sjohanna McCray. Sjohnna McCray movingly recounts a life born out of wartime to a Korean mother and an American father serving during the Vietnam War. Their troubled histories, and McCray's own, are told with lyrical passion and the mythic undercurrents of discovering one's own identity and desires. What emerges is a self. McCray won the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets for this collection and it's easy to see why. He doesn't eschew complexity but his syntax is strikingly clear and there are images which lodge in the reader's mind and won't depart. There is also a ringing musicality to these poems - they resonate in the ear. Read "Rapture Poems" by Sjohnna McCray available from Rakuten Kobo. Because I can never say anything plainly. Because I always stutter politely. Because there's always the chatter before t.
Rapture. Sjohnna McCray. Graywolf Press; April 72 pp; $ Buy: paperback | Kindle. “Father and Son by Window,” the opening poem in Sjohnna McCray’s debut poetry collection Rapture, has an ephemeral feel; the poem rises like a plume of smoke. “You sing, soft winds and blue seat,” it begins, a line more about sound and mood than action, with such rich consonance that it practically begs to be read aloud. Rapture: Poems by Sjohnna McCray Because I can never say anything plainly. Because I always stutter politely. Because there's always the chatter before the kissfrom "In Need of Subtitles" In this award-winning debut, Sjohnna McCray movingly recounts a life born out of wartime to a Korean mother and an American father serving during the. Sjohnna McCray is the author of the poetry collection Rapture, which won the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. His poems have appeared in numerous journals including the Chicago Quarterly Review, Tin House Online, and the Tahoma Literary Review. He lives in Athens, Georgia and teaches at Georgia Gwinnett College.
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