Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing(1st Edition) (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry) by CharifShanahan Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2017 by Southern Illinois University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8093-3577-0, ISBN: 0-8093-3577-8
"Finalist, Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry Finalist, Publishing Triangle's Thom Gunn Award 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, navig ..."
Trace Evidence Poems (Paperback) by CharifShanahan Paperback, Published 2023 by Tin House Books ISBN-13: 978-1-953534-66-8, ISBN: 1-953534-66-X
"“A truly magical achievement.” —Ocean Vuong In a powerful and urgent follow-up to his award-winning debut Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing, Charif Shanahan’s poems in Trace Evidence explore the complexities of mixed-race ..."
"Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry is an anthology of poems by more than one hundred award-winning poets, including Jericho Brown, Justin Philip Reed, and Tracy K. Smith, with themed essays on poetics from celebrated scholars such as Kwame Dawes, Meta DuEwa Jones, and Evie Shockley. The Furious Flower Poetry Center is the nation’s first academic center for Black poetry. In this eponymous collection, editors Jo ..."
Trace Evidence Poems by CharifShanahan 114 Pages, Published 2023 by Tin House Books ISBN-13: 978-1-953534-73-6, ISBN: 1-953534-73-2
"A Chicago Review of Books Most Anticipated Chicago Book of 2023 “A truly magical achievement.” —Ocean Vuong In Trace Evidence, the urgent follow-up to his award-winning debut Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing, Charif Shanahan ..."
"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 ..."