Look

"“It matters what you call a thing.” So begins Look, the debut collection of poetry from Solmaz Sharif, with all the grace and ferocity of an unpinned grenade. Built upon the language of the Department of Defense’s Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms, Sharif’s Look is an open invitation to marvel at the audacity and capacity of euphemism in modern politics. As she detonates term after DoD-approved term throughout tender and personal poetics, Sharif takes back wartime doublespeak by pumping it full of her own blood and memory."

"a work of poetry that is about war and language, drawing partially from the Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms."