Trace Evidence: Poems

ISBN: 195353466X

Author: Shanahan, Charif

Condition: New

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDA GUARDIAN AND ELECTRIC LIT BEST POETRY BOOK OF 2023A truly magical achievement. -Ocean VuongIn Trace Evidence, the urgent follow-up to his award-winning debut Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing, Charif Shanahan continues his piercing meditations on the intricacies of mixed-race identity, queer desire, time, mortality, and the legacies of anti-Blackness in the US and abroad. At the collections center sits On the Overnight from Agadir, a poem that chronicles Shanahans survival of a devastating bus accident in Morocco, his mothers birth country, and ruminates on home, belonging, and the mysteries of fate. With rich lyricism, power, and tenderness, Trace Evidence centers the racial periphery and excavates the vestiges of our violent colonial past in the most intimate aspects of our lives. In a language yoked equally to the physical and metaphysical worlds, the poet articulates the need we all share for real intimacy and connection, and proves, time and again, that the true cost of our separateness is the love that our survival requires.