Research Catalog

Title

Into each room we enter without knowing : poems / by Charif Shanahan.

Author

Shanahan, Charif, 1983-

Publication

Carbondale : Crab Orchard Review & Southern Illinois University Press, [2017]

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Details

Additional Authors

Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe

Description

x, 78 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"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"--

Series Statement

Crab Orchard series in poetry

Uniform Title

• Poems. Selections
• Crab Orchard award series in poetry

Alternative Title

Poems.

Subject

• Identity (Psychology) > Poetry
• Racially mixed people > Poetry
• Arab Americans > Race identity > Poetry
• Black people > Race identity > Poetry
• African Americans > Race identity > Poetry
• Gays > Identity > Poetry
• Arab Americans > Ethnic identity > Poetry
• Identité (Psychologie) > Poésie
• Américains d'origine arabe > Identité ethnique > Poésie
• Noirs américains > Identité ethnique > Poésie
• Homosexuels > Identité > Poésie
• Personnes noires > Identité ethnique > Poésie
• POETRY > General
• African Americans > Race identity
• Black people > Race identity
• Gays > Identity
• Identity (Psychology)
• Racially mixed people

Genre/Form

• Poetry
• poetry.
• Poésie.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

I -- Gnawa Boy, Marrakesh, 1968 -- Trying To Speak -- Plantation -- Into Each Room We Enter Without Knowing -- Massa Confusa -- Self-Portrait In Black And White -- On This Hard Bench -- Bronze Parrot -- Watermark -- Briefs -- Soho (London) -- Dirty Glass -- Origin -- II -- Wanting To Be White -- Tippu Tip On His Deathbed In Stone Town -- Homosexuality -- Little Saviors -- Eunuch -- Persona Non Grata -- Market -- Ticino -- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder -- Lower The Pitch Of Your Suffering -- Where If Not Here -- Lake Zurich -- Saint-Tropez -- Unbearable White -- Passing -- III -- Clean Slate -- The Most Opaque Sands Make For The Clearest Glass -- At L'Express French Bistro My White Father Kisses My Black Mother Then Calls The Waiter A Nigger -- Single File -- Eunuch (Pre-) -- Auction / Roman Girl -- Asmar -- Song -- Where If Not Here (II) -- Preface -- Landswept -- Ligament -- Aqua -- As The Formless Within Takes Shape We Fail Again -- In Prospect -- Haratin Girl, Marrakesh, 1968 -- Trying To Live -- IV -- "Your Foot, Your Root" -- Whiteness On Her Deathbed.

ISBN

• 9780809335770
• 0809335778
• 9780809335787 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2016035391
• 40026903470
• 40026905559

OCLC

• 951158153
• SCSB-11171252

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library