{"product_id":"book-fpyb","title":"Customs","description":"\u003cp\u003eI said what I meant\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003ebut I said it\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003ein velvet. I said it in feathers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eAnd so one poet reminded me\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eRemember what you are to them.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePoodle\u003c\/em\u003e, I said.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eAnd remember what they are to you.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eMeat.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003e—from “Patronage”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eCustoms\u003c\/em\u003e, 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. While Sharif critiques the culture of performed social skills and poetry itself—its foreclosures, affects, successes—she begins to write her way out to the other side of acceptability and toward freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eCustoms\u003c\/em\u003e is a brilliant, excoriating new collection by a poet whose unfolding works are among the groundbreaking literature of our time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Recorded Books, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49359707406640,"sku":"BDfpyb","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49359707472176,"sku":"ZEfpyb","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":49359707439408,"sku":"ZMfpyb","price":35.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/113562-fpyb-Square.jpg?v=1734469989","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-fpyb","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}