![]() ![]() The influences are there, but the book is more. That’s why Calling a Wolf a Wolf has been one of the most anticipated collections of the year.Ī lot of the moves in the book are similar to associative leapers like Dean Young, or the intimate silence seekers like Kazim Ali, or violent body imaginaries like Ocean Vuong. Before his first full collection, Akbar was already a force. ![]() ![]() Twitter DominanceĪkbar has received a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, a Pushcart Prize, and the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. While Calling is his first full length collection, Akbar has slowly and surely become an indispensable part of our living poetry community: i.e. “It’s never too late to become/ a new thing, to rip the fur// from your face and dive/ dimplefirst into the strange.” -from “Portrait of the Alcoholic with Doubt and Kingfisher” harris says his poems “are as reverent and irreverent in the face of addiction as they are in the search for self.” Frank Bidart (National Book Award nominee this year) calls the book a “bounty, an intensely inventive and original debut.” With Calling a Wolf a Wolf, Kaveh Akbar has delivered, with intimate, delicate violence, a landmark collection for the next generation of poets to come. ![]() Getting Inside Kaveh Akbar’s Body or, Calling a Wolf a Wolfįrancine j. ![]()
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