Sharif Solmaz - Customs Poems - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: 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.
Title: Customs Poems
Author(s): Sharif Solmaz
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Barcode: 9781644450796
Pages: 72 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 3/1/2022
Category: Poetry By Individual Poets