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Longlisted for the 2023 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Longlisted for the 2022 Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize A New Yorker Essential Read of 2022 A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2022 An NPR Best Book of 2022 A Literary Hub Best Reviewed Poetry Collection of 2022 _______________ 'Witty and incisive. [Sharif] masterfully traverses the landscape of exile and all its complicated grief' New York Times _______________ The devastating second collection by Solmaz Sharif, author of Look , a National Book Award finalist With Customs , Solmaz Sharif offers a series of poetic refusals, weighing nuanced qu estions about what it means to belong to a place. In the face of hard borders these poems seek a reckoning with the structures, in society, in language itself, by which these limits act on us. Sharif examines what it means to exist in the nowhere of the arrivals terminal; to navigate a continual series of checkpoints, officers, searches, and questionings that can become a relentless challenge; a mutating shibboleth. Through the poet's adept balancing of tonal and formal elements, these poems interrogate the 'customs' of the nation-state, of the English language, of the paces these systems put us through. But this work is not enjoined to a hopeless quest. Instead, the propulsive force that informs each line, each white space, and punctuation mark, is a powerfully galvanizing and healing force. Customs reminds us of the generative possibilities of restlessness, of seeking in each poem to refresh what it is a poem can be and do. EAN: 9781526655295 Farbverschnitt: Generell werden die Bücher ohne Farbverschnitt geliefert, auch wenn die Abbildungen einen Farbverschnitt zeigen. Erscheinungsjahr: 27.04.2023 Produktform: Kartoniert, Klappenbroschur Beilage: Paperback Autoren: Sharif, Solmaz Seitenzahl/Blattzahl: 97 Themenüberschrift: POETRY / General Keyword: Iran; Iranian-American writers; National Book Award; Iranian female writers; Persian female writers Fachschema: Amerikanische Belletristik / Lyrik~Englische Bücher / Belletristik / Lyrik Fachkategorie: Einzelne Dichter, Moderne und zeitgenössische Lyrik (ab 1900) Text Sprache: eng Verlag: Bloomsbury UK Länge: 191 mm Breite: 132 mm Höhe: 15 mm Gewicht: 121 gr Genre: Importe Herkunftsland: GROSSBRITANNIEN (GB)