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 Akbar is the founding editor of Divedapper. In Akbar’s first full-length collection, Calling a Wolf a Wolf, from 2017, about struggling with drug and alcohol addiction, he writes, every step I’ve taken / has been from one tongue. The being afraid, only that it came to an end. Akbar is the author of Pilgrim Bell (Graywolf Press, 2021) Calling a Wolf a Wolf (Alice James Books, 2017) and the chapbook Portrait of the Alcoholic (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2017). Or the literal foot of God himself before you realize He holds an MFA from Butler University and a PhD in creative writing from Florida State University. Whatever's real to you, you have to clomp
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":
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 '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' These are powerful, intimate poems of thirst: for alcohol, for other bodies, for knowledge and for life. Tracking the joys and pains of the path through addiction, and wrestling with desire, inheritance and faith, Calling a Wolf a Wolf is the darkly sumptuous debut from award-winning poet Kaveh Akbar. Tracking the joys and pains of the path through addiction, and wrestling with desire, inheritance and faith, Calling a Wolf a Wolf is the darkly sumptuous debut from award-winning poet Kaveh Akbar. Akbar blazes the poetry scene with this introspective, powerful and passionate.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE FELIX DENNIS PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTION 2018 Akbar read over a hum of street traffic and chatting pedestrians. The garden, of course, was not as tranquil as it had been when Emily sat there. Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo A POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION Calling a Wolf a Wolf by Kaveh Akbar (Alice James Books, 2017) Reviewed by Rebecca Valley I saw Kaveh Akbar read last month under a white tent lit with string lights in Emily Dickinson’s garden.
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