Customs Was It for This ruim honderd jaar na het

ruim honderd jaar na het verschijnen in 1907 en 1908

translation Chris Daniels

in which thoughts touch us ‘like soft rain’

'roaring through this project is an embodied feeling of black study

Customs Was It for This ruim honderd jaar na hetSolmaz 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.