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SUMMARY:Charif Shanahan + Airea D. Matthews
DESCRIPTION:Charif Shanahan and Airea D. Matthews read from their latest poetry collections. \n\nAbout Into Each Room We Enter Without Knowing \nIn 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 racial constructs\, sexuality\, family\, and the globe in search of “who we are to each other . . . who we are to ourselves.”With poems that weave from Marrakesh to Zurich to London\, through history to the present day\, this book is\, on its surface\, an uncompromising exploration of identity in personal and collective terms. Yet the collection is\, most deeply\, about intimacy and love\, the inevitability of human separation and the challenge of human connection. Urging us to reexamine our own place in the broader human tapestry\, Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing announces the arrival of a powerful and necessary new voice. \n  \nAbout Simulacra \nWinner of the 2016 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize \nA fresh and rebellious poetic voice\, Airea D. Matthews debuts in the acclaimed series that showcases the work of exciting and innovative young American poets. Matthews’s superb collection explores the topic of want and desire with power\, insight\, and intense emotion. Her poems cross historical boundaries and speak emphatically from a racialized America\, where the trajectories of joy and exploitation\, striving and thwarting\, violence and celebration are constrained by differentials of privilege and contemporary modes of communication. In his foreword\, series judge Carl Phillips calls this book “rollicking\, destabilizing\, at once intellectually sly and piercing and finally poignant.” This is poetry that breaks new literary ground\, inspiring readers to think differently about what poems can and should do in a new media society where imaginations are laid bare and there is no thought too provocative to send out into the world.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/charif-shanahan-airea-d-matthews/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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