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Trace Evidence
Written by Charif Shanahan
Narrated by Charif Shanahan
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
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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 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.
"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 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.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Incredible piece of art. Truly worthy of more praise than I can offer. Will read again.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5If this is the art modern man makes I’m incredibly disappointed. This isn’t even a good story. The author isn’t that good of a writer. I had more fun reading the required books in middle school than this one for fun. Reading the other reviews it’s like oh my god wow. I don’t see it. My suggestion is read Thomas sowell, chinua Achebe, Ralph Ellison. It’s more worth your time than this filler garbage