Trace Evidence

Poems

von Charif Shanahan

112 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Winner of the Whiting AwardWinner of the Publishing Triangle's Thom Gunn AwardWinner of the Lambda Literary Award for Gay PoetryFinalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in PoetryFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle AwardFinalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry AwardLonglisted for the National Book Award for Poetry“A 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 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, 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.

• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Lyrik, Poesie
• ISBN: 9781953534668
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 21.03.2023
• Größe: 225 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Zando