Into Each Room We Enter Without Knowing

by Charif Shanahan

Finalist, Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry
Finalist, Publishing Triangle's Thom Gunn Award

In this affecting poetry debut, Charif Shanahan explores what it means to be fully human in our wounded and divided world. In poised yet unrelenting lyric poems, Shanahan--queer and mixed-race--confronts the challenges of a complex cultural inheritance, informed by colonialism and his mother's immigration to the United States from Morocco, navigating...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809335778
• ISBN13: 9780809335770
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 92 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.8"