Look: Poems
Look: Poems
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Look: Poems by Solmaz Sharif
In this astounding debut, Solmaz Sharif assembles her family's and her own fragmented narratives in the aftermath of warfare. These poems point to the ways violence is conducted against our language. Throughout this book are words and phrases lifted from the Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms; their seamless inclusion exposes the euphemisms deployed to sterilize and control language. But Sharif refuses to accept this as given, and turns it on its perpetrators: 'Let it matter what we call a thing,' she writes.
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.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781555977443 |
| ISBN 10 | 1555977448 |
| Title | Look: Poems |
| Author | Solmaz Sharif |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Graywolf Press,U.S. |
| Year published | 2016-07-05 |
| Number of pages | 112 |
| Prizes | Commended for National Book Awards (Poetry) 2016 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |