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. 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. Calling a Wolf a Wolf by Kaveh Akbar (Alice James Books, 2017) I saw Kaveh Akbar read last month under a white tent lit with string lights in Emily Dickinson’s garden. 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. The being afraid, only that it came to an end.

Or the literal foot of God himself before you realize Calling a Wolf a Wolf by Kaveh Akbar September 2017 Alice James Books Cover. Calling a Wolf a Wolf was released by Alice James Books this fall. 'The struggle from late youth on, with and. These are powerful, intimate poems of thirst: for alcohol, for other bodies, for knowledge and for life. He is the founder and editor of the interviews website Divedapper, where he archives conversations with poets such as Solmaz Sharif and Cynthia Cruz. 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. Whatever's real to you, you have to clomp Akbar was born in Tehran and lives in Tallahassee. From 'Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before' Sometimes you just have to leave

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. 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