Thiscollection, winner of the 2014 Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award, furtherestablishes Shane McCrae as an indispensible poetic voice. With hisunmistakable cadences, he probes insistently yet big-heartedly into someparadoxes of belief and righteousness, confronting God from the quagmire of hisupbringing: half-Black and raised by White supremacists.