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Customs : poems / Solmaz Sharif.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Description: 86 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781644450796
  • 1644450798
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
America -- Dear Aleph, -- Beauty -- Self-care -- Social skills training -- Dear Aleph, -- Visa -- Persistence of vision: Gwendolyn Brooks -- Planetarium -- Now what -- Persistence of vision: televised confession -- He, too -- Dear Aleph, -- Learning Persian -- Patronage -- Into English -- The end of exile -- Without which -- The master's house -- Does yours have a landscape? -- An otherwise.
Summary: "In Customs, Solmaz Sharif examines what it means to exist in the nowhere of the arrivals terminal, a continual series of checkpoints, officers, searches, and questionings that become a relentless experience of America. With resignation and austerity, these poems trace a pointed indoctrination to the customs of the nation-state and the English language, and the realities they impose upon the imagination, the paces they put us through. While Sharif critiques the culture of performed social skills and poetry itself--its foreclosures, affects, successes--she begins to write her way out to the other side of acceptability and toward freedom. Customs is a brilliant, excoriating new collection by a poet whose unfolding works are among the groundbreaking literature of our time"-- Provided by publisher.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Winner of the 2023 CLMP Firecracker Award for Poetry
Winner of the 2023 Northern California Book Award for Poetry
Finalist for the 2023 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
Finalist for the 2022 L.A. Times Book Prize for Poetry
Longlisted for the 2023 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award

In Customs , Solmaz Sharif examines what it means to exist in the nowhere of the arrivals terminal, a continual series of checkpoints, officers, searches, and questionings that become a relentless experience of America. With resignation and austerity, these poems trace a pointed indoctrination to the customs of the nation-state and the English language, and the realities they impose upon the imagination, the paces they put us through. While Sharif critiques the culture of performed social skills and poetry itself--its foreclosures, affects, successes--she begins to write her way out to the other side of acceptability and toward freedom.

Customs is a brilliant, excoriating new collection by a poet whose unfolding works are among the groundbreaking literature of our time.

"In Customs, Solmaz Sharif examines what it means to exist in the nowhere of the arrivals terminal, a continual series of checkpoints, officers, searches, and questionings that become a relentless experience of America. With resignation and austerity, these poems trace a pointed indoctrination to the customs of the nation-state and the English language, and the realities they impose upon the imagination, the paces they put us through. While Sharif critiques the culture of performed social skills and poetry itself--its foreclosures, affects, successes--she begins to write her way out to the other side of acceptability and toward freedom. Customs is a brilliant, excoriating new collection by a poet whose unfolding works are among the groundbreaking literature of our time"-- Provided by publisher.

America -- Dear Aleph, -- Beauty -- Self-care -- Social skills training -- Dear Aleph, -- Visa -- Persistence of vision: Gwendolyn Brooks -- Planetarium -- Now what -- Persistence of vision: televised confession -- He, too -- Dear Aleph, -- Learning Persian -- Patronage -- Into English -- The end of exile -- Without which -- The master's house -- Does yours have a landscape? -- An otherwise.

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