Shane McCrae, PULLING THE CHARIOT OF THE SUN: A Memoir of a Kidnapping
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Zibby Owens
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🗓️ 25 October 2023
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Zibby and award-winning poet Shane McCrae discuss his unforgettable memoir Pulling the Chariot of the Sun, which details the harrowing experience of being kidnapped at the age of four from his Black father and raised by his white supremacist grandparents. McCrae delves into the long-term emotional impact of this event and his journey to understand and write about it. McCrae's narrative is noted to have a poetic quality, which he harnessed to express the often painful memories of his past. Lastly, he shares his best advice for aspiring authors and poets.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
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| 1:03.2 | Shane McCrae is the author of Pulling the Chariot of the Sun, a memoir of a kidnapping. |
| 1:08.2 | Shane is the author of several books of poetry, including in the language of |
| 1:11.7 | my captor, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, |
| 1:16.2 | and the Carlos Williams Award. Sometimes I Never Suffered, shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, |
| 1:21.6 | and his most recent collection, Kane named the Animal. McCray is the recipient of a Whiting |
| 1:26.5 | Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, a Lannin Literary Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He teaches at Columbia University and lives in New York City. Welcome, Shane. Thank you so much for coming on Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books to discuss your memoir, pulling the chariot of the sun, a memoir of a kidnapping. Thank you for having me. My pleasure. |
| 1:45.0 | What a powerful story. Oh my gosh, my heart just like bleeds for you reading some of the |
| 1:50.5 | things that have happened and your relationship with your grandfather and oh my gosh, all of it. |
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