Look: Poems by Sharif, Solmaz

Look: Poems

*Finalist for the 2017 PEN Open Book Award**Finalist for the 2016 National Book Award* Solmaz Sharif's astonishing...
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Author: Solmaz Sharif
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Look: Poems by Sharif, Solmaz

Look: Poems

$24.42

Look: Poems

$24.42
Author: Solmaz Sharif
Format: Paperback
Language: English

*Finalist for the 2017 PEN Open Book Award*
*Finalist for the 2016 National Book Award*

Solmaz Sharif's astonishing first book, Look, asks us to see the ongoing costs of war as the unbearable loss of human lives and also the insidious abuses against our everyday speech. In this virtuosic array of poems, lists, shards, and sequences, Sharif assembles her family's and her own fragmented narratives in the aftermath of warfare. Those repercussions echo into the present day, in the grief for those killed in America's invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, and in the discrimination endured at the checkpoints of daily encounter.

At the same time, these poems point to the ways violence is conducted against our language. Throughout this collection are words and phrases lifted from the Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms; in their seamless inclusion, Sharif exposes the devastating euphemisms deployed to sterilize the language, control its effects, and sway our collective resolve. But Sharif refuses to accept this terminology as given, and instead turns it back on its perpetrators. "Let it matter what we call a thing," she writes. "Let me look at you."

Daily I sit

with the language
they've made

of our language

to NEUTRALIZE
the CAPABILITY of LOW DOLLAR VALUE ITEMs
like you.

You are what is referred to as
a "CASUALTY."

--from "Personal Effects"

Author: Solmaz Sharif
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 07/05/2016
Pages: 112
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9781555977443


Award: National Book Awards - Finalist


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 06/15/2016 pg. 81
Publishers Weekly 06/20/2016

About the Author
Solmaz Sharif has published poetry in The New Republic and Poetry, and has received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She is currently a Jones Lecturer at Stanford University.

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