{"product_id":"look-solmaz-sharif","title":"Look;  Solmaz Sharif","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSolmaz Sharif’s astonishing first book, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLook\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, asks us to see the ongoing costs of war as the unbearable losses 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 discriminations endured at the checkpoints of daily encounter.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAt 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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDepartment of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e; 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.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJUly 5, 2016\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\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":45536469778754,"sku":"","price":7.13,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/8735\/3154\/files\/look.jpg?v=1688934774","url":"https:\/\/shop.freeairbooks.com\/products\/look-solmaz-sharif","provider":"FREEAIR Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}