{"product_id":"trace-evidence-isbn-9781953534668","title":"Trace Evidence","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Whiting Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Publishing Triangle's Thom Gunn Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the Hurston\/Wright Legacy Award in Poetry\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the National Book Award for Poetry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A truly magical achievement.” ―Ocean Vuong\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eTrace Evidence\u003c\/i\u003e, the urgent follow-up to his award-winning debut \u003ci\u003eInto Each Room We Enter without Knowing\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith rich lyricism, power, and tenderness, \u003ci\u003eTrace Evidence\u003c\/i\u003e 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.Colonialism \/ 1\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrace Evidence\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Mulatto” :: “Quadroon” \/ 5\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eImago \/ 8\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThirty-Third Year \/ 9\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEncounter \/ 10\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eControl \/ 11\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eClot \/ 13\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTalking with My Boss about Diversity and Inclusion \/ 15\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCountertransference \/16\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSelf-Determination with the Question of Race \/ 18\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInfidelity \/ 19\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNot the Whole Thing, but a Large Part of the Story \/ 20\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTrace Evidence \/ 21\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo Rooms Down the Hall \/ 22\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the Basement of Sears \u0026amp; Roebuck When for the First Time I Pulled My Hand from Her Hand and Fled \/ 24\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExile \/ 25\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRace \/ 26\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMy People \/ 28\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInner Children \/ 30\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOn the Overnight from Agadir \/ 35\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLittle Red Lighthouse\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLittle Red Lighthouse \/ 55\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile I Wash My Face I Ask Impossible Questions of Myself and Those Who Love Me \/ 60\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePsychotherapy \/ 62\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThirty-Fifth Year \/ 63\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn Exiting Universitätsspital Zürich, New Year’s Eve, 2015 \/ 64\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePresent Moment \/ 65\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEnd of Days \/ 67\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFig Tree \/ 68\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLove \/ 75\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFate \/ 76\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWound \/ 78\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMy Work \/ 79\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIndeterminacy \/ 80\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThirty-Seventh Year \/ 81\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSelf-Portrait as Homo sapiens  \/ 83\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConversation in Long Future Time \/ 84\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTalking with God \/ 86\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWorthiness \/ 87\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments \/ 93\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAbout the Author \/ 95\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\"Searching. . . . he’s such a great poet, his particular experience resonates with any reader who’s ever wondered, ‘Why are we here?\"'—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Searing. . . . a stunning meditation on intimacy, time, and our universal need for connection. Electric and urgent, \u003ci\u003eTrace Evidence\u003c\/i\u003e is about belonging, and how love can help us not only survive, but thrive.\" —\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eChicago Review of Books\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Queer desire, death, and identity collide in this piercing collection.\"—\u003cb\u003eAmerican Library Association, A 2024 ALA Notable Book\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Exquisite and affecting. . . . an artistic vision that is dynamic and brilliantly conveyed.\"—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, Starred Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Monumental. . . . Gorgeous. . . . Expansive. . . . Deeply inquisitive and self-aware, the poems demonstrate a true mastery of form. . . . [and] reckon in surprising and unexpected ways with mixed-race identity, sexual intimacy, and the imbricated legacies of transcontinental colonialism.\"—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Brilliant. . . . A lyrical voice that’s at once pointed and poised.\"—\u003cb\u003eGuernica\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"His words are moving and muscular, with each line pulsating with wisely crafted feeling and thought. . . . [Shanahan] shows not just how a person is impacted by race but also how race is shaped by all of us, individually, in every moment.\"—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBook Page\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Spectacular. . . . By turns wry, philosophical, and cutting, Shanahan lays bare the woes of contemporary America while offering glimpses of embodied joy.\"—\u003cb\u003eBuzzfeed\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Emotionally vulnerable and insightful; a work in which all readers likely will find something of themselves.\"—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, Starred Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Gorgeously frank and delicate lyrics that both query and implore.\"—\u003cb\u003eLitHub\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Trace Evidence\u003c\/i\u003e explores mortality, belonging \u0026amp; race with glaring honesty \u0026amp; technical precision. Its urgency \u0026amp; timeliness make it one of the most important collections of the year. . . . The poems are rich with nuance and often demand that readers return to them, each time gleaning something new. . . . Charif Shanahan is one of the most vital voices in American poetry.\" —\u003cb\u003eThe Poetry Question\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Piercing meditations on the intricacies of mixed-race identity, queer desire, time, mortality, and the legacies of anti-Blackness in the US and abroad.\"—\u003cb\u003eNew York Public Library\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A stunning tryptic that powerfully explores themes of mixed-race identity, time, mortality, and queer love.\"—\u003cb\u003eThe Rumpus\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Deeply personal yet rooted in the universal as Shanahan raises profound questions about human nature and what it means to feel displaced in the world.\"—\u003cb\u003eZyzzyva\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Trace Evidence\u003c\/i\u003e is an astute, subversively reserved, and propulsive book, in which reverence for the line and its possibilities fashions an eros that's made new through precise yet concussive turns of phrases. All of which reminds you what sits at the heart of these poems: that 'you are actually very good at joy.' A truly magical achievement.\" —\u003cb\u003eOcean Vuong, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eTime Is a Mother\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Revelatory and pulsating with truth, \u003ci\u003eTrace Evidence\u003c\/i\u003e is a dangerously wise book of poems. Each poem is full of muscular music and meticulously carved out of longing as they ask, not just why we live, but how we live, and for whom. Wholly human and deeply rooted in attention, this book is for anyone who has ever questioned where they belonged.\" —\u003cb\u003eAda Limón, 24th U.S. Poet Laureate and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Hurting Kind\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Charif Shanahan is examining race and sexuality in ways I have not seen. \u003ci\u003eTrace Evidence\u003c\/i\u003e mines the most intimate reaches of our colonial past to ask these important questions: \u003ci\u003eHow do we live and love with so much betrayal? Betrayal of the self, by family, lovers, friends, the body’s betrayal of itself?\u003c\/i\u003e Notably, the book contends with an anti-Blackness beyond the familiar narratives of our contemporary moment: here, it emanates from the Arab world through the very parent who confers Blackness to her children, offering nuance and complexity to the ways in which we tend to consider the subject. And while there is a through-line of pain in this book, as it explores the liminality of mixed-race identity, time and mortality, it neither ends in despair nor seeks to assign blame. . . . Charif’s is a necessary voice.\" —\u003cb\u003eNatasha Trethewey, 19th U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of \u003ci\u003eNative Guard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Ecstatic in their exactitude, crystalline in their wisdom, these poems remind me of the period after a great struggle, when body and psyche recover one another. \u003ci\u003eTrace Evidence\u003c\/i\u003e is an utter revelation.\" —\u003cb\u003eTracy K. Smith, 22nd US Poet Laureate and author of \u003ci\u003eSuch Color: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eTrace Evidence\u003c\/i\u003e, Charif Shanahan writes a world. It is a whole world, a full world, because Shanahan knows what to leave out—his is neither a maximalist’s art, nor a minimalist’s art, but a completist’s art, an art that understands maximalism tends toward deception, and minimalism tends toward exclusion. A poet who is a completist is a welcoming poet, and in its treatment of some of the most divisive social issues of our day, \u003ci\u003eTrace Evidence\u003c\/i\u003e is a wholly welcoming book, a book in which a reader can live.\" —\u003cb\u003eShane McCrae, author of \u003ci\u003eCain Named the Animal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Epic in scope, packed with emotional power, fiercely intelligent, sensual, erotic, audacious, tracing lineages of race and of family and of love, presenting the hard evidence of socially structured hatred and destruction, spiritually infused with human being: 'If you are on this earth \/ You are of this earth,' the poet insists, in a book brilliantly and beautifully shaped and alive with the hope that poetry alone can bring. I call out \u003ci\u003eTrace Evidence\u003c\/i\u003e for what it is: a masterpiece.\" —\u003cb\u003eLawrence Joseph, author of \u003ci\u003eA Certain Clarity: Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eCharif Shanahan\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eInto Each Room We Enter without Knowing\u003c\/i\u003e, a Lambda Literary Award and Publishing Triangle’s Thom Gunn Award Finalist. His work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eAmerican Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, PBS NewsHour, and \u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts, the Stegner Fellowship Program, and the Fulbright Commission. An Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Northwestern University, Charif lives in Chicago, Illinois.","brand":"Tin House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233796436197,"sku":"NP9781953534668","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781953534668.jpg?v=1767742878","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/trace-evidence-isbn-9781953534668","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}