{"product_id":"9781526655295-customs","title":"Customs","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the 2023 PEN\/Jean Stein Book Award\u003cbr\u003eLonglisted for the 2022 Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker \u003c\/i\u003eEssential Read of 2022\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of 2022\u003cbr\u003eAn NPR Best Book of 2022\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eLiterary Hub\u003c\/i\u003e Best Reviewed Poetry Collection of 2022\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e_______________\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Witty and incisive… [Sharif] masterfully traverses the landscape of exile and all its complicated grief’ \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e_______________\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe devastating second collection by Solmaz Sharif, author of \u003ci\u003eLook\u003c\/i\u003e, a National Book Award finalist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith \u003ci\u003eCustoms\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSharif 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCustoms \u003c\/i\u003ereminds us of the generative possibilities of restlessness, of seeking in each poem to refresh what it is a poem can be and do.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40799650087009,"sku":"9781526655295","price":8.37,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_31295003.jpg?v=1731573543","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781526655295-customs","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}