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Winner of the 2023 CLMP Firecracker Award for Poetry
Winner of the 2023 Northern California Book Award for Poetry
Finalist for the 2023 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
Finalist for the 2022 L.A. Times Book Prize for Poetry
Longlisted for the 2023 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award

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 itselfits foreclosures, affects, successesshe 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.

Customs: Poems

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      Publisher Graywolf Press
      Published 1 March 2022
      ISBN-13 9781644450796
      978-1644450796
      ISBN-10 1644450798

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Winner of the 2023 CLMP Firecracker Award for Poetry
      Winner of the 2023 Northern California Book Award for Poetry
      Finalist for the 2023 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
      Finalist for the 2022 L.A. Times Book Prize for Poetry
      Longlisted for the 2023 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award

      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 itselfits foreclosures, affects, successesshe 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.

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