"His language remains as stark as the perdurable, terrible history it contains – a history that is not over yet."–Stephanie Burt, New York Times Book Review
"[A]n astonishingly precise account of a complex emotional past."–Ryo Yamaguchi, Boston Review
"McCrae continues his confrontations with American racism in his superb fifth collection. With a raw honesty, McCrae refuses to shy away from the effects of oppression and faces up to those not willing to acknowledge their part in a history many want to forget."–Publishers Weekly
"[In the Language of My Captor] impl[ies] an audience other than the captor, someone who might hear his description of the captivity–spoken, it seems, in the language of his captivity–and understand."–Jonathan Farmer, Kenyon Review
"As I read Shane McCrae's In the Language of My Captor, I thought of the Romanian poet Paul Celan."–Valerie Duff-Strautmann, Salamander
"McCrae is a flexible, experimental poet investigating the way history lays over (and under) the present moment."–Emily Temple, LitHub
"His language remains as stark as the perdurable, terrible history it contains – a history that is not over yet."–Stephanie Burt, New York Times Book Review
"[In the Language of My Captor] impl[ies] an audience other than the captor, someone who might hear his description of the captivity–spoken, it seems, in the language of his captivity–and understand."–Jonathan Farmer, Kenyon Review
