Customs by Solmaz Sharif Chatto & Windus everywhere these poems are caustic

everywhere these poems are caustic and comic in turn

His poetry evokes the wild life of the body with madrigal-like elegance

the saving grace of love in an otherwise bleak childhood is celebrated through spellbinding visions of nature

His preference for errata and marginalia

Customs by Solmaz Sharif Chatto & Windus everywhere these poems are caustic'Witty and incisive [Sharif] masterfully traverses the landscape of exile and all its complicated grief' New York Times The devastating second collection by Solmaz Sharif, author of Look, a National Book Award finalist With Customs, Solmaz Sharif offers a series of poetic refusals, weighing nuanced questions about what it means to belong to a place. In the face of hard borders these poems seek a reckoning with the structures, in society, in language