In her 2016 book Look, Solmaz Sharif incorporates language from the United States Department of Defense Dictionary of Military Terms. This language expresses the third-space and transnational impulse of the poems as the military language defamiliarizes the English it appropriates, while forcing us to attend to the militarism present in our everyday lives. In her stunning poems Sharif deconstructs binaries between the intimate and the militarized, home and abroad, the self and the other, in a way that looks back at power and scrambles references in order to expose the bones of what Lisa Parks calls “vertical hegemony.” In her title poem, “Look,” Sharif shows how technologies of surveillance, technologies of communication, the body, and the weapon, exist in an assemblage. Sharif’s poems, in their tracking of the materiality of violence, freely cross borders, holding space for ghosts in a radical poetic of transnational feminist theory. Sharif ultimately mobilizes a transnational consciousness as she demonstrates how America as a nation state calls itself into being through the violence it perpetuates outside its borders. She also proposes an alternative in a material disruption or re-routing which resonates with contemporary grassroots refusal to let the destructive machines of capitalism take the quickest route.