Pilgrim Bell: Poems

Akbar, Kaveh

ISBN 10: 1644450593 / ISBN 13: 9781644450598

Published by Graywolf Press, 2021

About this Item

First Edition with a complete numberline. A Very Good copy with light shelfwear and an uncreased spine. Internally clean and free of markings.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Pilgrim Bell: Poems
• Publisher: Graywolf Press
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1644450593
• ISBN 13: 9781644450598
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry

About this title

Synopsis

Kaveh Akbar’s exquisite, highly anticipated follow-up to Calling a Wolf a Wolf


With formal virtuosity and ruthless precision, Kaveh Akbar’s second collection takes its readers on a spiritual journey of disavowal, fiercely attendant to the presence of divinity where artifacts of self and belonging have been shed. How does one recover from addiction without destroying the self-as-addict? And if living justly in a nation that would see them erased is, too, a kind of self-destruction, what does one do with the body’s question, “what now shall I repair?” Here, Akbar responds with prayer as an act of devotion to dissonance―the infinite void of a loved one’s absence, the indulgence of austerity, making a life as a Muslim in an Islamophobic nation―teasing the sacred out of silence and stillness.


Richly crafted and generous, Pilgrim Bell’s linguistic rigor is tuned to the register of this moment and any moment. As the swinging soul crashes into its limits, against the atrocities of the American empire, and through a profoundly human capacity for cruelty and grace, these brilliant poems dare to exist in the empty space where song lives―resonant, revelatory, and holy.

About the Author

Kaveh Akbar is the author of Calling a Wolf a Wolf and has received honors such as a Levis Reading Prize and multiple Pushcart Prizes. Born in Tehran, Iran, he teaches at Purdue University and in low-residency programs at Warren Wilson and Randolph Colleges.