{"product_id":"trace-evidence-poems-9781953534668","title":"Trace Evidence: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eTrace Evidence\u003c\/em\u003e, the urgent follow-up to his award-winning debut \u003cem\u003eInto Each Room We Enter without Knowing\u003c\/em\u003e, 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 collection's center sits \"On the Overnight from Agadir,\" a poem that chronicles Shanahan's survival of a devastating bus accident in Morocco, his mother's birth country, and ruminates on home, belonging, and the mysteries of fate. With rich lyricism, power, and tenderness, \u003cem\u003eTrace Evidence\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCharif Shanahan\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eInto Each Room We Enter without Knowing\u003c\/i\u003e, a Lambda Literary Award and Publishing Triangle's Thom Gunn Award Finalist. His work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eAmerican Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, PBS NewsHour, and \u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts, the Stegner Fellowship Program, and the Fulbright Commission. An Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Northwestern University, Charif lives in Chicago, Illinois.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Tin House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51831614734610,"sku":"9781953534668","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_218aa88c-24d6-463f-ad9e-15df67407adb.jpg?v=1767006504","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/trace-evidence-poems-9781953534668","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}