Portrait of the Alcoholic by Kaveh Akbar

Portrait of the Alcoholic

Kaveh Akbar

45 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction poetry emotional reflective slow-paced
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"Was it Jung who speculated that alcoholism might be an attempt at a material solution for a spiritual problem? Kaveh Akbar seems able to contain both--he's a demotic, as well as a spiritual, poet (the only type of either I trust). Each word in th...

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Moods

emotional 100%
reflective 100%
challenging 50%
dark 50%
funny 25%
hopeful 25%
inspiring 25%

Pace

fast 71%
slow 14%
medium 14%

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4.4

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