Portrait of the Alcoholic Akbar KavehPaperback
Portrait of the Alcoholic Akbar KavehPaperback "Was it Jung who speculated that alcoholism might be an attempt at a material solution for a spiritual problem? Each word in this little book might rise…
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Portrait of the Alcoholic Akbar KavehPaperback
"Was it Jung who speculated that alcoholism might be an attempt at a material solution for a spiritual problem? 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. Kaveh Akbar seems able to contain both--he's a demotic, as well as a spiritual, poet (the only type of either I trust).
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 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.
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