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Shane McCrae: "Panopticon"

“The keeper put me in the cage      with the monkeys / Because I asked to be / Put in the cage with the monkeys.” Shane McCrae, whose most recent collection, In the Language of My Captor (Wesleyan University Press, 2017), is longlisted for the 2017 National Book Award in poetry, reads his poem “Panopticon” for the River Styx at the Tavern reading series.

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Shane McCrae
reading
Panopticon
In the Language of My Captor
2017
Wesleyan University Press
National Book Award

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