Portrait of the Alcoholic by Kaveh Akbar

Portrait of the Alcoholic

Kaveh Akbar

48 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction poetry emotional reflective slow-paced

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

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