{"product_id":"macmillan-publishers-pilgrim-bell-poems","title":"Pilgrim Bell: Poems by Kaveh Akbar","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eKaveh Akbar’s exquisite, highly anticipated follow-up to\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eCalling a Wolf a Wolf.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith formal virtuosity and ruthless precision, Kaveh Akbar’s second collection takes its readers on a spiritual journey of disavowal, fiercely attendant to the presence of divinity where artifacts of self and belonging have been shed. How does one recover from addiction without destroying the self-as-addict? And if living justly in a nation that would see them erased is, too, a kind of self-destruction, what does one do with the body’s question, “\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ewhat now shall I repair?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e” 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRichly crafted and generous, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ePilgrim Bell\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e’s linguistic rigor is tuned to the register of this moment and any moment. As the swinging soul crashes into its limits, against the atrocities of the American empire, and through a profoundly human capacity for cruelty and grace, these brilliant poems dare to exist in the empty space where song lives―resonant, revelatory, and holy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePaperback.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e80 pages.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e6.5\" x 9\".\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54262665511217,"sku":"Books","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0065\/4842\/2709\/files\/goldenrulebooksnewfinals-14.jpg?v=1781283753","url":"https:\/\/shopgoldenrule.com\/products\/macmillan-publishers-pilgrim-bell-poems","provider":"GOLDEN RULE GALLERY","version":"1.0","type":"link"}