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but an act of violence shatters their intimate world and changes their lives forever

returns to confront her shattered

She still bears the scars from that night

from the hollows of grief to the heights of newfound hope

and and give readers an unfiltered look into her own experiences

Trace Evidence: Poems Christopher Penczak but an act of violenceIn Trace Evidence, the urgent follow up to his award winning debut Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing, Charif Shanahan continues his piercing meditations on the intricacies of mixed race identity, queer desire, time, mortality, and the legacies of anti Blackness in the US and abroad. At the collection's center sits "On the Overnight from Agadir," a poem that chronicles Shanahan's survival of a devastating bus accident in Morocco, his mother's