![]() ![]() And, to be really real, I just wasn’t doing very well with it. ![]() There came to be too many ports of entry into my consciousness. ![]() And I think that those are critical states for me to be able to nourish and protect. To my ability to think and doubt and sit in uncertainty without trying to resolve it. That self-consciousness was really corrosive to everything. When I spoke to him over Zoom, he was at an artists’ residency at Civitella, in Italy, and despite the distance and shaky internet connection, we gabbed about the life-or-death practice of poetry like the pair of gleeful nerds we are. Though Akbar has since left social media, he remains an advocate through his work as poetry editor of The Nation. Calling a Wolf a Wolf was a phenomenon, reaching thousands of readers, many of whom discovered and fell in love with poetry through their feeds. But before that, Akbar was already a tremendous presence-a prototypical online influencer, sharing pictures of pages from other poets’ books with his many followers, spreading the gospel far and wide. Since the publication of his 2017 debut collection, Calling a Wolf a Wolf, a hyperspeed, ultrasensory journey through addiction, recovery, and spirituality, he’s become one of the best-known poets in America, and that’s saying something in this moment when poetry is suddenly, somehow, cool. Courtesy of Graywolf Press.Įnthusiasm is at the heart of Kaveh Akbar’s literary endeavor. ![]()
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