"Embodied Placements": Solmaz Sharif's Customs
"Throughout Customs, Sharif excavates orientations of space and time, revealing a tense lucidity. Sharif, along with countless other Iranians, carries the impurities of history closely, as they continue to rule the life she leads today. These impurities lend themselves to elucidation—Sharif looks towards an impure syntactic structure, seeking truth within the contradictions of her form."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Heather Green on Renee Gladman's Plans for Sentences
"The pathos in these lines might bring up different associations for different readers. For me, there's pathos somehow 'leaking' from these sentences, calling to mind the ways we build or fail to build communities, shelters, and habitable spaces. Taken together, the text and images here dream and draft and gesture toward future creations, lines of many kinds that will create, inhabit, and alter future spaces." |
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