![]() ![]() Here the speaker questions if naming his vices, perhaps calling an alcoholic an. The recipient of a 2016 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation and the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, Akbar was born in Tehran, Iran, and currently lives and teaches in Florida. To call a wolf a wolf distills its wildness and contains it to language. ![]() His poems appear recently or soon in The New Yorker, Poetry, APR, Tin House, Ploughshares, PBS NewsHour, and elsewhere. ![]() Kaveh Akbar is the founding editor of Divedapper. The being afraid, only that it came to an end. Or the literal foot of God himself before you realize Whatever's real to you, you have to clomp ![]() From Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before Sometimes you just have to leave Poems confront craving, control, the constant battle of alcoholism and sobriety, and the questioning of the self and its instincts within the context of this never-ending fight. This highly-anticipated debut boldly confronts addiction and courses the strenuous path of recovery, beginning in the wilds of the mind. The struggle from late youth on, with and without God, agony, narcotics and love is a torment rarely recorded with such sustained eloquence and passion as you will find in this collection. Kaveh Akbar is the author of Pilgrim Bell (Graywolf Press, 2021)Calling a Wolf a Wolf (Alice James Books, 2017 Penguin UK, 2018). ![]()
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