Look: Poems

by Solmaz Sharif

Book Overview

*Finalist for the 2017 PEN Open Book Award*
*Finalist for the 2016 National Book Award*

Solmaz Sharif's astonishing first book, Look, 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1555977448
• ISBN13: 9781555977443
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Graywolf Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.9"