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Solmaz Sharif · 2016 · United States / Iranian diaspora

A poetry collection examining war, state violence, and the corruption of everyday language through poems, lists, fragments, and sequences.

Notes and Misconceptions

It is not simply antiwar poetry.

Its central move is linguistic: official military language is turned back against itself.

Best Path

War language, documentary poetry, state violence

Reading Paths

  • Speculative Pressure, Poetry, and Language Systems

    Works that treat language itself as a field of pressure: official speech, legal grammar, war vocabulary, utopia.

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poetrywar-languageiranian-diasporadocumentaryfragmentscontemporary-poetrystate-violence