{"product_id":"customs-solmaz-sharif-9781644450796","title":"Customs: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2023 CLMP Firecracker Award for Poetry\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the 2023 Northern California Book Award for Poetry\u003cbr\u003eFinalist for the 2023 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award\u003cbr\u003eFinalist for the 2022 L.A. Times Book Prize for Poetry\u003cbr\u003eLonglisted for the 2023 PEN\/Jean Stein Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eCustoms\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 itself--its foreclosures, affects, successes--she begins to write her way out to the other side of acceptability and toward freedom. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eCustoms\u003c\/i\u003e is a brilliant, excoriating new collection by a poet whose unfolding works are among the groundbreaking literature of our time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Solmaz Sharif\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1644450798\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781644450796\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Graywolf Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 72\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/17\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2022 pg. 140\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2022 pg. 8","brand":"Solmaz Sharif","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44053355593983,"sku":"9781644450796","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1607bac5-6225-4f4d-8c88-b5bef3f447d7.jpg?v=1685023891","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/customs-solmaz-sharif-9781644450796","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}