
The Mystery Is the Clarity, featuring Charif Shanahan
Memoir Nation
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Mulatto Quadrion's Trace Evidence
The title poem Trace Evidence is a kind of dramatic staging of a conversation between the speaker of the poem and his mother about their cultural and ethnic inheritance. So I was wondering if you could read this poem, so our listeners can experience it, and then speak to this theme of living, a part, and a part in relation to your exploration of the question of your racial identity. Sure. Mulatto Quadrion, somewhere between. I want to tell you what for me it has been like. To speak at all, I must occupy a position in a system whose positions I appear now to occupy. Though some say such non-position is my position, speak from that place-less place
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