{"product_id":"customs-poems-solmaz-sharif","title":"Customs: Poems;  Solmaz Sharif","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn 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 itself―its foreclosures, affects, successes―she begins to write her way out to the other side of acceptability and toward freedom.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCustoms is a brilliant, excoriating new collection by a poet whose unfolding works are among the groundbreaking literature of our time.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMarch 1, 2022\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBorn in Istanbul to Iranian parents, Solmaz Sharif holds degrees from U.C. Berkeley, where she studied and taught with June Jordan’s Poetry for the People, and New York University. Her work has appeared in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ePoetry\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Kenyon Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ejubilat\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eGulf Coast\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eWitness\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and others. The former managing director of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, her work has been recognized with a “Discovery”\/Boston Review Poetry Prize, scholarships the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, a winter fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, an NEA fellowship, and a Stegner Fellowship. She has most recently been selected to receive a 2014 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award as well as a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship. She is currently a lecturer at Stanford University. Her first poetry collection, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eLOOK\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, published by Graywolf Press in 2016, was a finalist for the National Book Award.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"FREEAIR Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47893147189570,"sku":"","price":9.48,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/8735\/3154\/files\/customs.jpg?v=1709060690","url":"https:\/\/shop.freeairbooks.com\/products\/customs-poems-solmaz-sharif","provider":"FREEAIR Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}