laurelinwonder 's review for:

Calling a Wolf a Wolf by Kaveh Akbar

5.0

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Akbar’s poetry navigates the complicated subjects of religion, addiction, and loss—of the body’s health, of self, of faith. These poems are seekers in themselves, journeying through alcoholism and recovery, faith and faithlessness. Akbar writes with frank and necessary transparency about the nature of addiction, the strange and painful want for the shackle the speaker is simultaneously working so hard to unclasp.