{"product_id":"customs","title":"Customs","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWith Customs, 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\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. Through 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eInstead, the propulsive force that informs each line, each white space, and punctuation mark, is a powerfully galvanizing and healing force. Customs reminds us of the generative possibilities of restlessness, of seeking in each poem to refresh what it is a poem can be and do.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Solmaz Sharif","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43867343094017,"sku":"9781526655295","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0573\/8600\/8738\/files\/websitecovertemplate-2023-07-09T133441.347.png?v=1688906094","url":"https:\/\/rarebirdsbooks.pro\/products\/customs","provider":"Rare Birds Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}