Author: Yasmine Ameli

side by side series of the covers of Aber's Hard Damage and Sharif's Look

The Relationship Between the Military and Language in Look and Hard Damage

ByYasmine Ameli

Reading recent poetry collections by Solmaz Sharif and Aria Aber in concert, we see that Sharif’s serves as a project that inscribes the militarization of everyday language and its consequent normalization of violence—groundwork that allows for a radical project like Aber’s to exist.