Calling a Wolf a Wolf
$24.00
- Paperback
112 pages
- Release Date
31 January 2018
Summary
The much-anticipated debut by one of America’s most exciting new poets
I could not be held responsible for desire he could not be held at all
In Calling a Wolf a Wolf, the reality of love can all too often prove disappointing at best, and life-threateningly ineffectual at worst. As Kaveh Akbar puts it in ‘Heritage’, a poem dedicated to an Iranian woman executed for killing the man who was attempting to rape her- ‘in books love can be war-ending/…in life we hold love u…
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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