Pilgrim Bell: Poems

Akbar, Kaveh

ISBN 10: 1644450593 / ISBN 13: 9781644450598

Verlag: Graywolf Pr, 2021

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Unread book in excellent condition. as good as new. Language - english.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABE-1670516537187

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Pilgrim Bell: Poems
• Verlag: Graywolf Pr
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1644450593
• ISBN-13: 9781644450598
• Einband: Softcover
• Zustand: Wie neu
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<p><b>Kaveh Akbar’s exquisite, highly anticipated follow-up to <i>Calling a Wolf a Wolf</i></b><br><br><br>With formal virtuosity and ruthless precision, Kaveh Akbar’s second collection takes its readers on a spiritual journey of disavowal, fiercely attendant to the presence of divinity where artifacts of self and belonging have been shed. How does one recover from addiction without destroying the self-as-addict? And if living justly in a nation that would see them erased is, too, a kind of self-destruction, what does one do with the body’s question, “<i>what now shall I repair?</i>” Here, Akbar responds with prayer as an act of devotion to dissonance—the infinite void of a loved one’s absence, the indulgence of austerity, making a life as a Muslim in an Islamophobic nation—teasing the sacred out of silence and stillness.<br><br><br>Richly crafted and generous, <i>Pilgrim Bell</i>’s linguistic rigor is tuned to the register of this moment and any moment. As the swinging soul crashes into its limits, against the atrocities of the American empire, and through a profoundly human capacity for cruelty and grace, these brilliant poems dare to exist in the empty space where song lives—resonant, revelatory, and holy.</p>

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<b>Kaveh Akbar</b> is the author of <i>Calling a Wolf a Wolf</i> and has received honors such as a Levis Reading Prize and multiple Pushcart Prizes. Born in Tehran, Iran, he teaches at Purdue University and in low-residency programs at Warren Wilson and Randolph Colleges.