Customs av Solmaz Sharif

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<b>Longlisted for the 2023 PEN/Jean Stein Book AwardLonglisted for the 2022 Brooklyn Public Library Book PrizeA <i>New Yorker </i>Essential Read of 2022A <i>Publishers Weekly</i> Best Book of 2022An NPR Best Book of 2022A <i>Literary Hub</i> Best Reviewed Poetry Collection of 2022</b><b>_______________</b><b>¿Witty and incisive¿ [Sharif] masterfully traverses the landscape of exile and all its complicated grief¿ </b><i>New York Times</i><b>_______________</b><b>The devastating second collection by Solmaz Sharif, author of <i>Look</i>, a National Book Award finalist</b>With <i>Customs</i>, 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.Sharif examines what it means to exist in the nowhere of the arrivals terminal; to navigate a continual series of checkpoints, officers, search