Akbar Kaveh - Pilgrim Bell Poems - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Kaveh Akbar's exquisite highly anticipated follow - up to Calling a Wolf a Wolf 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 what now shall I repair? 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. Richly crafted and generous Pilgrim Bell'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.
Title: Pilgrim Bell Poems
Author(s): Akbar Kaveh
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Barcode: 9781644450598
Pages: 80 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 8/3/2021
Category: Poetry By Individual Poets