Solmaz Sharif
Born
Istanbul, Turkey
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Look: Poems
6 editions
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2016
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Customs: Poems
10 editions
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2022
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American Journal: Fifty Poems for Our Time
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2018
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Organs of Little Importance
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Freeman's. Scrittori dal futuro
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Raised by Wolves: Fifty Poets on Fifty Poems, A Graywolf Anthology
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Poetry Foundation Magazine, April 2018
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2018
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A World Between: Poems, Short Stories, and Essays by Iranian-Americans
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1999
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Kenyon Review, Jan/Feb 2020
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Suffering from Realness
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“Studies suggest How may I help you officer? is the single most disarming thing to say and not What’s the problem? Studies suggest it’s best the help reply My pleasure and not No problem. Studies suggest it’s best not to mention problem in front of power even to say there is none. Gloria Steinem says women lose power as they age and yet the loudest voice in my head is my mother. Studies show the mother we have in mind isn’t the mother that exists. Mine says: What the fuck are you crying for? Studies show the baby monkey will pick the fake monkey with fake fur over the furless wire monkey with milk, without contest. Studies show to negate something is to think it anyway. I’m not sad. I’m not sad. Studies recommend regular expressions of gratitude and internal check-ins. Studies define assertiveness as self-respect cut with deference. Enough, the wire mother says. History is a kind of study. History says we forgave the executioner. Before we mopped the blood we asked: Lord Judge, have I executed well? Studies suggest yes. What the fuck are you crying for, officer? the wire mother teaches me to say, while America suggest Solmaz, have you thanked your executioner today?”
― Look: Poems
― Look: Poems
“his eyes SENSITIVE when he passes advice to me, like I’m his SEQUEL, like we’re all a SERIAL caught on Iranian satellite TV. When you tell someone of, he calls it SERVICING. When I stand on his feet, I call it SHADOWING.”
― Look: Poems
― Look: Poems
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