{"product_id":"look-poems","title":"Look: Poems","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eLook: Poems\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eSolmaz Sharif\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781555977443\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eGraywolf Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2016\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e112\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition: \u003c\/b\u003eUsed Copy\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e*Finalist for the 2017 PEN Open Book Award*\u003cbr\u003e*Finalist for the 2016 National Book Award* \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSolmaz Sharif's astonishing first book, \u003ci\u003eLook\u003c\/i\u003e, asks us to see the ongoing costs of war as the unbearable loss of human lives and also the insidious abuses against our everyday speech. In this virtuosic array of poems, lists, shards, and sequences, Sharif assembles her family's and her own fragmented narratives in the aftermath of warfare. Those repercussions echo into the present day, in the grief for those killed in America's invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, and in the discrimination endured at the checkpoints of daily encounter. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt the same time, these poems point to the ways violence is conducted against our language. Throughout this collection are words and phrases lifted from the \u003ci\u003eDepartment of Defense\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eDictionary of Military and Associated Terms\u003c\/i\u003e; in their seamless inclusion, Sharif exposes the devastating euphemisms deployed to sterilize the language, control its effects, and sway our collective resolve. But Sharif refuses to accept this terminology as given, and instead turns it back on its perpetrators. \"Let it matter what we call a thing,\" she writes. \"Let me look at you.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDaily I sit\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ewith the language\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ethey've made\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eof our language\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eto NEUTRALIZE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ethe CAPABILITY of LOW DOLLAR VALUE ITEMs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003elike you.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eYou are what is referred to as\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ea \"CASUALTY.\"\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e--from \"Personal Effects\"\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Look: Poems | Solmaz Sharif | Paperback | 9781555977443 | Used: Like New | Poetry 1676511","offer_id":48742040862872,"sku":"1676511","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Look: Poems | Solmaz Sharif | Paperback | 9781555977443 | Used: Like New | Poetry 1686740","offer_id":48864280576152,"sku":"1686740","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Look: Poems | Solmaz Sharif | Paperback | 9781555977443 | Used: Very Good | Poetry 1751934 (temp: 6)","offer_id":48944521412760,"sku":"1751934","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/71TgB-UUx8L.jpg?v=1773846654","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/look-poems","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}