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Into each room we enter without knowing

"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"—

Audience
adult
Length
short · 78 pages

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