New and Collected Hell: A Poem: A Poem Political & Protest and threats to destroy his

and threats to destroy his mission--and his family--swirl around him

A world at stake

Important novels leave deep cracks in our beliefs

because names are dangerous when you're on the run

But when Mo spies a perfectly ripe mango in a tree

New and Collected Hell: A Poem: A Poem Political & Protest and threats to destroy hisShane McCrae, "peer to the peerless" (New York Journal of Books), takes up and turns on its head the mantle of Dante in this contemporary vision of Hell. Of death the muse is death the muse of Hell Is death the muse of Heaven I don't know O muse of where howcan I hope to go To where I pray I'll go sing at least tell Shane McCrae, one of the most prophetic and powerful poetic voices of our time, has created a twenty first century epic in New and