Description
In these poems, Charif Shanahan traces the quiet afterlives of language—how memory, history, and the body leave marks that can be read like clues. Moving through intimate scenes and larger cultural echoes, the collection follows a speaker’s search for meaning in what persists: grief and desire, migration and belonging, the moral weight of witnessing. With lyrical precision and a keen ear for rhythm, Shanahan blends formal craft with contemporary urgency, creating poems that feel both investigative and deeply personal. The result is a work about how we interpret the world—through fragments, traces, and the stubborn hope that attention can become a kind of repair.
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paperback
Tin House Books, LLC
Published Jan 1, 2023
ISBN: 9781953534668
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First Published
2023
Language
eng
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