Look: Poems Sharif Solmaz
Look: Poems Sharif Solmaz Finalist for the 2017 PEN Open Book Award*Finalist for the 2016 National Book Award*Solmaz Sharif's astonishing first book, Look, asks us to see the ongoing costs of war as…
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Look: Poems Sharif Solmaz
Finalist for the 2017 PEN Open Book Award*Finalist for the 2016 National Book Award*Solmaz Sharif's astonishing first book, Look, asks us to see the ongoing costs of war as the unbearable loss of human lives and also the insidious abuses against our everyday speech. Those repercussions echo into the present day, in the grief for those killed in America's invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, and in the discrimination endured at the checkpoints of daily encounter.At the same time, these poems point to the ways violence is conducted against our language. In this virtuosic array of poems, lists, shards, and sequences, Sharif assembles her family's and her own fragmented narratives in the aftermath of warfare.
Throughout this collection are words and phrases lifted from the Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms; in their