*AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021* **Selected as one of TIME's 100
Must-Read Books of 2021** 'Profound and singular, smart and sad and
funny. . . We need Pilgrim Bell.' TOMMY ORANGE 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
rigour 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. America, I
warn you, if you invite me into your home I will linger, kissing my
beloveds frankly, pulling up radishes and capping all your pens.
There are no good kings, only burning palaces. -from 'The Palace'
'Very few living writers write so achingly toward God as Kaveh
Akbar . . . each of the poems in this collection finds its target'
LAUREN GROFF
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