A review by heresthepencil
Calling a Wolf a Wolf by Kaveh Akbar

5.0

"I’m becoming more a vessel of memories than a person it’s a myth
that love lives in the heart it lives in the throat we push it out
when we speak when we gasp we take a little for ourselves"

easily one of the best poetry collections i've read this year. it's so raw & poignant - from the very first poem, it rips out ur bones, leaves u hollow and aching. only to then delicately share w u its own journey to recovery, its own tricks for learning to love urself. (they don't always work)

"I hold my breath.

The boat I am building
will never be done."