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Customs : poems / Solmaz Sharif.

Sharif, Solmaz, (author,, narrator.).

Summary:

I said what I meant but I said it in velvet. I said it in feathers. And so one poet reminded me Remember what you are to them. Poodle, I said. And remember what they are to you. Meat. --from "Patronage" 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

Record details

ISBN: 9781705058596
ISBN: 1705058590
Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 audio file (44 min., 19 sec.)) : digital
Edition: Unabridged.
Publisher: [Prince Frederick] : Recorded Books, Inc., 2022.

Content descriptions

Participant or Performer Note:	Read by Solmaz Sharif.
Source of Description Note:	Online resource; title from title details screen (OverDrive; viewed July 14, 2022).