![]() ![]() 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. ![]() ![]() His poems appear recently or soon in The New Yorker, Poetry, APR, Tin House, Ploughshares,PBS NewsHour, and elsewhere. Kaveh Akbaris 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 Starred Review in Publishers Weekly Akbar proves what books can do in his exceptional debut, which brings us along on his struggle with addiction, a dangerous comfort and soul-eating monster he addresses boldly. ![]() Whatever's real to you, you have to clomp Calling a Wolf a Wolf: Poems A breathtaking addition to the canon of addiction literature. 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.įrom "Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before" Sometimes you just have to leave 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." -Fanny Howe ![]()
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