Customs: Poems Sharif Solmaz
Customs: Poems Sharif Solmaz Finalist for the 2023 Kingsley Tufts Poetry AwardFinalist for the 2022 L.A. With resignation and austerity, these poems trace a pointed indoctrination to the customs of…
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Customs: Poems Sharif Solmaz
Finalist for the 2023 Kingsley Tufts Poetry AwardFinalist for the 2022 L.A. 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. Times Book Prize for PoetryLonglisted for the 2023 PEN/Jean Stein Book AwardIn 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.
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