How does one recover from addiction without destroying the self-as-addict?. Kaveh Akbar is the sorcerer's sorcerer, masterful in the way he wields language. . Profound and singular, smart and sad and funny, but most of all truth's beauty and beauty's truth sung. . We need Pilgrim Bell.
How does one recover from addiction without destroying the self-as-addict?. 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.
Author: Kaveh Akbar. Title: Pilgrim Bell. Format: Paperback. Release Year: 2021. Item Weight: 136g. Item Width: 9mm. Item Length: 165mm. Item Height: 229mm.