![]() If your style isn't in the list, you can start a free trial to access over 20 additional styles from the Perlego eReader. He suggests redemption without ignoring the violence that attends it: “it’s never too late to become/ a new thing, to rip the fur// from your face and dive/ dimplefirst into the strange.” Akbar’s poems offer readers, religious or not, a way to cultivate faith in times of deepest fear: “it is not God but the flower behind God I treasure.” (Sept. Citation styles for Calling a Wolf a Wolf How to cite Calling a Wolf a Wolf for your reference list or bibliography: select your referencing style from the list below and hit 'copy' to generate a citation. Addressing God, he pleads: “Do you not know how scary// it can get here?” Discussing embodiment, Akbar writes that “everyone/ looks uglier naked or at least/ I do,” while elsewhere exalting the body and its complex wants as “a mosque borrowed from Heaven.” A breathtaking addition to the canon of addiction literature, Akbar’s poetry confronts the pain and joy in denying oneself for the sake of oneself. ![]() These poems define life as an act of faith “so much/ of being alive is breaking,” yet we choose to go on. Though loss infuses the Divedapper founder and editor’s work, he animates myriad human struggles-addiction, estrangement from one’s body and language, faith and its absence-with empathy, intimacy, and expansive vision. The Wide Question: KAVEH AKBAR, THE AUTHOR OF CALLING A WOLF A WOLF, RETURNS WITH PILGRIM BELL, A COLLECTION OF POEMS THAT DISSOLVES THE BORDER BETWEEN. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Regarding loss, I’m afraid/ to keep it in the story,/ worried what I might bring back to life,” writes Akbar as he opens his much-anticipated debut collection. ![]()
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