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A review by raptorred
Calling a Wolf a Wolf by Kaveh Akbar
3.0
Eloquently beautiful and haunting.
The writer's journey through addiction and recovery, Islamic religion, his family, and his lovers.
Some of my favorite phrases:
"Like the marble angel who woke to find his innards scattered around his feet. Blood from the belly tastes sweeter than blood anywhere else."
"Sometimes I feel beautiful and near dying like a feather on an arrow shot though a neck other times I feel tasked only with my own soreness like a scab on the roof of a mouth."
"Undertaker spills his midday latte on a corpse, a chariot wheel flies off and kills a slave, and nobody asks for a refund."
"Are you going to finish that tongue, my love? I'll chew it up for you, spit it down your throat."
"Keep a soul open and it's bound to fill up with scum. It's all I can do to quiver in and out of my jeans each day, to keep my fingers out of the wrong mouths."
The writer's journey through addiction and recovery, Islamic religion, his family, and his lovers.
Some of my favorite phrases:
"Like the marble angel who woke to find his innards scattered around his feet. Blood from the belly tastes sweeter than blood anywhere else."
"Sometimes I feel beautiful and near dying like a feather on an arrow shot though a neck other times I feel tasked only with my own soreness like a scab on the roof of a mouth."
"Undertaker spills his midday latte on a corpse, a chariot wheel flies off and kills a slave, and nobody asks for a refund."
"Are you going to finish that tongue, my love? I'll chew it up for you, spit it down your throat."
"Keep a soul open and it's bound to fill up with scum. It's all I can do to quiver in and out of my jeans each day, to keep my fingers out of the wrong mouths."