{"product_id":"look-poems-1","title":"Look: Poems","description":"*Finalist for the 2017 PEN Open Book Award*\n*Finalist for the 2016 National Book Award*\n\nSolmaz 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 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.\n\nAt 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 Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms; 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.\"\n\nDaily I sit\nwith the language\nthey've made\n\nof our language\n\nto NEUTRALIZE\nthe CAPABILITY of LOW DOLLAR VALUE ITEMs\nlike you.\n\nYou are what is referred to as\na \"CASUALTY.\"\n\n--from \"Personal Effects\"\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1555977448\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: 4EKGY3009FHE_ns\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Sharif, Solmaz\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41702050791482,"sku":"4EKGY3009FHE_ns","price":8.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/1555977448-0_c7d90f15-64fc-419e-a86d-d19ab400978a.jpg?v=1790304079","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/look-poems-1","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}