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Customs : poems / Solmaz Sharif.
"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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781644451694
- ISBN: 1644451697
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (86 pages)
- Publisher: Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2022]
- Copyright: ©2022
Content descriptions
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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| Subject: | American poetry > 21st century. American poetry. |
| Genre: | Electronic books. Poetry Electronic books. poetry. Poetry. Poetry. Poésie. |