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

"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

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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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