Pilgrim Bell: Poems

Pilgrim Bell: Poems

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  • Author:Kaveh Akbar
  • ISBN:1644450593
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Summary

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。

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Tom C。

Such an amazing young poet。 He's a great metaphorist。 Sometimes he's funny。 Sometimes kind of shocking。 More often he's wise, mystical。 Here are some of my favorite lines, from a poem called "My Father's Accent":"On first inspecting Adam, the devil entered his lips。Watch: the devil enters Adam's lips,crawls through his throat, through his gutsto finally emerge out his anus。He's all hollow! the devil giggles。He knows his job will be easy, a human just one longdesperation to be filled。"In several Such an amazing young poet。 He's a great metaphorist。 Sometimes he's funny。 Sometimes kind of shocking。 More often he's wise, mystical。 Here are some of my favorite lines, from a poem called "My Father's Accent":"On first inspecting Adam, the devil entered his lips。Watch: the devil enters Adam's lips,crawls through his throat, through his gutsto finally emerge out his anus。He's all hollow! the devil giggles。He knows his job will be easy, a human just one longdesperation to be filled。"In several poems called "Pilgrim Bell", he uses periods midsentence, like so:"With sound。 A silver ring。Lost in the bedsheets is still。A silver ring。 You can either be。More holy or more full but。Not both。 See how the hot。Element glows red。 How。 Honey cools the tea。 Suppose。。。"After reading five or six poems like this, I started wondering Why does。 Kaveh keep。Doing this。 Shit。But I mean, maybe there's a reason。 Probably there's a good reason。 At least he's trying some different。 Things。 Out。 When a lot of poets just sort of run in place for decades at a time。 。。。more