Addiction. Recovery. Repeat. Akbar blazes the poetry scene with this introspective, powerful, and passionate debut.

This highly-anticipated debut boldly confronts addiction and courses the strenuous path of recovery, beginning in the wilds of the mind. Poems confront craving, control, the constant battle of alcoholism and sobriety, and the questioning of the self and its instincts within the context of this never-ending fight.

Kaveh Akbar is the founding editor of Divedapper. His poems appear recently or soon in The New Yorker, Poetry, APR, Tin House, PBS NewsHour, and elsewhere. He is the author of Calling a Wolf a Wolf (Alice James 2017) and the chapbook Portrait of the Alcoholic (Sibling Rivalry). The recipient of a 2016 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation and the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, Kaveh was born in Tehran, Iran, and currently lives and teaches in Florida.

• Publisher: Alice James Books
• Publish Date: September 12, 2017
• Pages: 100
• Dimensions: 5.9 X 8.9 X 0.4 inches | 0.4 pounds
• Language: English
• Type: Paperback
• EAN/UPC: 9781938584671
• BISAC Categories: American - General Subjects & Themes - Inspirational & Religious - Middle Eastern