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Kaveh Akbar Portrait of the Alcoholic (Paperback)
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- Portrait of the Alcoholic
- Title
- Portrait of the Alcoholic
- ISBN-10
- 1943977275
- EAN
- 9781943977277
- ISBN
- 9781943977277
- Genre
- Poetry & Drama
- Release Date
- 26/01/2017
- Release Year
- 2017
- Item Length
- 152mm
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- 9781943977277
- Publication Year
- 2017
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Portrait of the Alcoholic
- Item Height
- 229mm
- Publisher
- Sibling Rivalry Press, LLC
- Topic
- Poetry
- Item Width
- 152mm
- Item Weight
- 82g
- Number of Pages
- 48 Pages
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Was it Jung who speculated that alcoholism might be an attempt at a material solution for a spiritual problem? Kaveh Akbar seems able to contain both--he's a demotic, as well as a spiritual, poet (the only type of either I trust). Each word in this little book might rise up from somewhere deep in the earth, but they turn into stars. - Nick Flynn In Islam prayer is not transactional, poetry is not divorced from the quotidian and portraiture is embraced only in the abstract. And yet here in Kaveh Akbar's book, entreaty is earnest, aimed at the human and particular more often than the divine but at the same time the language and form elevate themselves to the fevered register of desperation. Yes, sure, fine, you would think that a Muslim writing about being a drunk would have to adopt unconventional approaches, but drunkenness in the Islamic literary tradition is a long and time-honored metaphor. For what? Abandonment to God, a cessation of the self--but not so here; no. Here it's real, it's coarse, it's dangerous. The reason we Muslims do not pray for things is that it is similarly dangerous for one to call God's attention onto oneself. But for Kaveh Akbar, whose very name means 'poetry, ' it is a risk every poem takes with gusto. And speaking purely for myself, these poems give me life because 'for so long every step I've taken/ has been from one tongue to another.' Be careful, little brother. God's got His eye on you now. - Kazim Ali
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Sibling Rivalry Press, LLC
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Portrait of the Alcoholic
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Poetry
Publication Year
2017
Number of Pages
48 Pages
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229mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
82g
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