Customs Utopia Pipe Dream Memory

Customs Utopia Pipe Dream MemorySolmaz Sharif In Customs, Solmaz Sharif examines what it means to exist in the nowhere of the arrivals terminal, a continual series of checkpoints, officers, searches, and questionings that become a relentless experience of America. With resignation and austerity, these poems trace a pointed indoctrination to the customs of the nation state and the English language, and the realities they impose upon the imagination, the paces they put us through.

In Le Spleen de Paris schetst hij portretten van rouwende weduwen

to the daily wonder of a poet's life in New York City and beyond – into lush-and sometimes horrible-dream worlds

It is a recognizably contemporary poetry: familiar discourses and lifeworlds made uncanny by an exacting realism

in the interest of audio-visual patterning

In kochanie

and Uljana Wolf (translated by Sophie Seita)

Aimé Césaire

the silencing of a people who at the time lacked the capacity and resources to defend and represent themselves

being together

and the reunion of the divided self

leads all the souls of all the living and dead to a point zero where the remaking of the cosmos can be performed

lost love and