{"product_id":"customs-solmaz-sharif-9781526655295","title":"Customs","description":"Longlisted for the 2023 PEN\/Jean Stein Book Award\nLonglisted for the 2022 Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize\nA New Yorker Essential Read of 2022\nA Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2022\nAn NPR Best Book of 2022\nA Literary Hub Best Reviewed Poetry Collection of 2022\n_______________\n‘Witty and incisive… [Sharif] masterfully traverses the landscape of exile and all its complicated grief’ New York Times\n_______________\nThe devastating second collection by Solmaz Sharif, author of Look, a National Book Award finalist\nWith Customs, 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.\nSharif 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.\nThrough 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.\nCustoms reminds us of the generative possibilities of restlessness, of seeking in each poem to refresh what it is a poem can be and do.","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51058210308384,"sku":"9781526655295","price":8.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/2812\/7264\/files\/9781526655295.jpg?v=1781223510","url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/customs-solmaz-sharif-9781526655295","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}