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Author Shanahan, Charif, 1983- author.

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

Publication Info. Carbondale : Crab Orchard Review & Southern Illinois University Press, 2017.

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Crab Orchard Series in Poetry
Crab Orchard award series in poetry.
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"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents Machine generated contents note: 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 -- 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.
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Subject Identity (Psychology) -- Poetry.
Identity (Psychology)
Genre/Form Poetry.
Subject Racially mixed people -- Poetry.
Racially mixed people.
Arab Americans -- Race identity -- Poetry.
Arab Americans.
Black people -- Race identity -- Poetry.
Black people -- Race identity.
African Americans -- Race identity -- Poetry.
African Americans -- Race identity.
Gay people -- Identity -- Poetry.
Gays.
Identity (Philosophical concept)
Gays -- Identity.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Homosexuals.
Genre/Form Poetry.
Added Title Poems. Selections https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2016056538
Other Form: Print version: Shanahan, Charif, 1983- Poems. Selections. Into each room we enter without knowing. Carbondale : Crab Orchard Review & Southern Illinois University Press, 2017 9780809335770 (DLC) 2016035391 (OCoLC)951158153
ISBN 9780809335787 (electronic book)
0809335786 (electronic book)
9780809335770
0809335778