{"product_id":"calling-a-wolf-a-wolf-9781938584671","title":"Calling a Wolf a Wolf","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"The struggle from late youth on, with and without God, agony, narcotics and love is a torment rarely recorded with such sustained eloquence and passion as you will find in this collection.\" --Fanny Howe\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis highly-anticipated debut boldly confronts addiction and courses the strenuous path of recovery, beginning in the wilds of the mind. Poems confront craving, control, the constant battle of alcoholism and sobriety, and the questioning of the self and its instincts within the context of this never-ending fight.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eFrom \"Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before\"\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eSometimes you just have to leave\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003ewhatever's real to you, you have to clomp\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003ethrough fields and kick the caps off\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eall the toadstools. Sometimes\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003eyou have to march all the way to Galilee\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003eor the literal foot of God himself before you realize\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eyou've already passed the place where\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003eyou were supposed to die. I can no longer remember\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003ethe being afraid, only that it came to an end.\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKaveh Akbar\u003c\/strong\u003e is the founding editor of \u003cem\u003eDivedapper\u003c\/em\u003e. His poems appear recently or soon in \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker, Poetry, APR, Tin House, Ploughshares, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003ePBS NewsHour\u003c\/em\u003e, and elsewhere. The recipient of a 2016 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation and the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, Akbar was born in Tehran, Iran, and currently lives and teaches in Florida. \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Alice James Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/12\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781938584671\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 100\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/15\/2017 pg. 85\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/21\/2017\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Kaveh Akbar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36671344738460,"sku":"9781938584671","price":14.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_cd1313c3-1438-435a-9674-b97ab2789418.jpg?v=1603925147","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/calling-a-wolf-a-wolf-9781938584671","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}