Customs: Poems by Solmaz Sharif

Customs: Poems

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Customs: Poems

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Customs: Poems

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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.
Book Details
Publisher:
Graywolf Press
ISBN:
9781644450796
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
72
Authors:
Solmaz Sharif
Published Date:
2022-03-01
Language:
English
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About Solmaz Sharif

Born in Istanbul to Iranian parents, Solmaz Sharif holds degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, where she studied and taught with June Jordan's Poetry for the People, and from New York University. Her debut, Look (Graywolf, 2016), was a finalist for the National Book Award and won the 2017 American Book Award. Her second collection, Customs (Graywolf, 2022), followed. She has received fellowships from the Lannan Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Poetry Foundation, along with a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford and the Holmes National Poetry Prize from Princeton University. She is an associate professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley.

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