Calling a Wolf a Wolf
$21.13
- Paperback
112 pages
- Release Date
31 January 2018
Summary
Calling a Wolf a Wolf: Poems of Thirst and Transformation
In Calling a Wolf a Wolf, love’s reality often disappoints, even proving life-threateningly ineffectual. As Kaveh Akbar observes, “in books love can be war-ending/…in life we hold love up to the light/ to marvel at its impotence.”
This darkly sumptuous debut collection charts the author’s struggle with addiction, revealing a power and beauty within our desires. We see strength in their flow, in their achievem…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141987972 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141987979 |
| Author: | Kaveh Akbar |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 112 |
| Release Date: | 31 January 2018 |
| Weight: | 125g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 153mm x 9mm |
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About The Author
Kaveh Akbar
Kaveh Akbar is the founding editor of Divedapper. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, Tin House, Ploughshares and elsewhere. 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.
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