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psantic's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
informative
reflective
sad
fast-paced
5.0
airheadxt's review against another edition
dark
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
fast-paced
4.75
coriandercilantro's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
tense
medium-paced
4.75
I re-read the last four lines like 10 times. I couldn't pull away from the book.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Murder, Death of parent, Gun violence, War, and Violence
Moderate: Confinement
rienthril's review against another edition
5.0
Beautiful and devastating. Sharif repurposes the language of the DOD to testify to ripples of oppression, dehumanization and war: the echoes of loss; suspicion and surveillance; the toll of death on the living. The shadow of American warmaking stretches even into language, with the DOD's militaristic, bureaucratic terms wielded by Sharif in alternating reversals of beauty or cynicism. But the words don't escape their clinical brutality; Sharif makes this quality even more plain.
erincataldi's review against another edition
5.0
The first poetry collection I've read this year, or maybe even longer than that. Wonderfully haunting and evocative, this collection of poems by Solmaz Sharif sticks to your soul like bubblegum on a sneaker. The words wound and pierce; mimicking the war in the Middle East which she writes so passionately about. Sharif proves that sometimes the pen can be mightier than the sword in this brutal, emotional, must read poetry collection. A must read for everyone, not just poetry buffs.
adambwriter's review against another edition
4.0
Thoughts will be available on March 23, 2023, at https://adambwriter.com/2023/03/22/look-by-solmaz-sharif/