Customs

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Beschreibung

<b>Longlisted for the 2023 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Longlisted for the 2022 Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize A <i>New Yorker </i>Essential Read of 2022 A <i>Publishers Weekly</i> Best Book of 2022 An NPR Best Book of 2022 A <i>Literary Hub</i> Best Reviewed Poetry Collection of 2022</b><b>_______________</b><b> 'Witty and incisive. [Sharif] masterfully traverses the landscape of exile and all its complicated grief' </b><i>New York Times</i><b>_______________</b><b> The devastating second collection by Solmaz Sharif, author of <i>Look</i>, a National Book Award finalist</b> With <i>Customs</i>, Solmaz Sharif offers a series of poetic refusals, weighing nuanced questions 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. <i>Customs </i>reminds us of the generative possibilities of restlessness, of seeking in each poem to refresh what it is a poem can be and do.

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781526655295

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

191 x 132 x 15 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Verlag / Hersteller

Bloomsbury UK