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Calling a Wolf a Wolf by Kaveh Akbar
4.5
slow-paced
These poems were stunning and just the right amount of loose to pull me in and make me believe in the speakers' unraveling, while keeping careful tension and allowing an impressively maintained self-criticism to creak through. Also really good titles! Favorite poems include "Yeki Bood Yeki Nabood," "Portrait of the Alcoholic with Doubt and Kingfisher," "Portrait of the Alcoholic Three Weeks Sober," "Being in This World Makes Me Feel Like a Time Traveler," "Portrait of the Alcoholic with Relapse Fantasy," "Against Hell," "Tassiopeia," "Portrait of the Alcoholic with Craving," "God," and "Personal Inventory: Fearless (Temporis Fila)." 
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