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Charif Shanahan : Trace Evidence

Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry

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The Unanswerable Questions of Trace Evidence

Shri Shanna Henry's latest collection trace evidence. The poems explore mixed race identity these are poems that explore blackness in the Arab world, whatever it might be for me. David Perry: I'd like to speak together into these unanswerable questions. When you say, to speak at all, I must occupy a position in a system whose positions I appear not to occupy. And yet paradoxically, it feels like your expression against languages capacity seems to itself open up possibilities for us to know you and to hear you.

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