Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnapping
"As someone who chose poetry as my entry into the craft of writing, I'm curious about how poets approach the creation of long-form prose. Should we fill novels with metaphors and similes? Or must...
we drown our memoirs in sensory description? A salient literary technique in the book Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnapping by the poet Shane McCrae is the author’s use of rhythm. He molds his prose into a conduit for continuous remembering that is reminiscent of waves at the seashore. His long sentences push forward in time as he remembers, then recede to the past as he un-remembers, only to churn and form a new wave that rushes into shore as he attempts to recollect again.”
Read my complete review of Shane McCrae’s memoir at Crayon Magazine. And read his book!
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