Description
In this searching second collection, the speaker moves through addiction and recovery, faith and doubt, inheritance and exile, asking what it means to repair a self—and a world—that has been fractured. Kaveh Akbar’s poems inhabit the intimate and expansive terrain of an Iranian American Muslim family, the immigrant experience, and the pressures of belonging in a nation that can render certain lives invisible. With formal virtuosity, musical language, and fearless spiritual inquiry, the collection swings between the known and unknowable, transforming prayer, memory, and everyday artifacts into instruments of revelation. Lyrical, urgent, and richly resonant, it is a profound meditation on survival, identity, and the difficult work of becoming whole.
Available Editions
paperback
Graywolf Press
Published Aug 3, 2021
80 pages
ISBN: 9781644450598
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Details
First Published
2021
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Pilgrim Bell by Kaveh Akbar.