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Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing
Charif Shanahan
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Description for Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing
paperback. In Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing, poet Charif Shanahan explores the various ways in which we as a species inherit identity constructs, chiefly about race and sexuality, and how we navigate those constructs in the creation of our identities. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 181.
In this affecting poetry debut, Charif Shanahan explores what it means to be fully human in our wounded and divided world. In poised yet unrelenting lyric poems, Shanahan--queer and mixed-race--confronts the challenges of a complex cultural inheritance, informed by colonialism and his mother's immigration to the United States from Morocco, navigating racial constructs, sexuality, family, and the globe in search of "who we are to each other . . . who we are to ourselves."
With poems that weave from Marrakesh to Zürich to London, through history to the present day, this book is, on its surface, an uncompromising ... Read more
In this affecting poetry debut, Charif Shanahan explores what it means to be fully human in our wounded and divided world. In poised yet unrelenting lyric poems, Shanahan--queer and mixed-race--confronts the challenges of a complex cultural inheritance, informed by colonialism and his mother's immigration to the United States from Morocco, navigating racial constructs, sexuality, family, and the globe in search of "who we are to each other . . . who we are to ourselves."
With poems that weave from Marrakesh to Zürich to London, through history to the present day, this book is, on its surface, an uncompromising ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press United States
Number of pages
80
Condition
New
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
Carbondale, United States
ISBN
9780809335770
SKU
V9780809335770
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About Charif Shanahan
Charif Shanahan was born in the Bronx in 1983 to an Irish-American father and a Moroccan mother. He holds an MFA in poetry from New York University. His poems have appeared in Baffler, Boston Review, Callaloo, Literary Hub, New Republic, Poetry International, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. He has received awards and fellowships from the Academy of American Poets, Cave Canem, ... Read more
Reviews for Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing
Shanahan breaks fresh ground in this painfully raw debut, dissecting the self in its cultural context via speakers who fearlessly claim both vulnerability and culpability. . . . Shanahan’s is a vital and profound new voice, and his eyebrow-raising interrogation leaves the reader with afterimages 'as the eye/ after the shock flash/ still sees/ the lightning.'" - Publisher's Weekly