Description
In these poems, Solmaz Sharif turns language into a lens for seeing—how words travel, fracture, and carry history in their wake. With a high-wire blend of lyric intensity and documentary attention, the collection follows speakers and fragments of speech as they move through borders, institutions, and everyday life, revealing how power shapes what can be said and what must remain unsaid. Themes of immigration, war, race, and the politics of translation pulse beneath the lines, while Sharif’s sharp formal choices—spare, musical, and often startling—make each poem feel both immediate and haunting. Part witness, part meditation, this is a book about attention itself: the urgent work of looking closely at the world and at the words that claim to describe it.
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paperback
Graywolf Press
Published Jan 1, 2016
113 pages
ISBN: 9781555979409
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Details
First Published
2016
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Look: Poems by Solmaz Sharif.