{"product_id":"pilgrim-bell","title":"Pilgrim Bell","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKaveh Akbar's exquisite, highly anticipated follow-up to \u003ci\u003eCalling a Wolf a Wolf\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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, \"\u003ci\u003ewhat now shall I repair?\u003c\/i\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRichly crafted and generous, \u003ci\u003ePilgrim Bell\u003c\/i\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.","brand":"Kaveh Akbar","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":68099346038935,"sku":"9781644450598","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/imageloader_cb5c756d-f363-4493-bd04-b1d7964f2912.jpg?v=1792480698","url":"https:\/\/thepoetryshop.com\/products\/pilgrim-bell","provider":"The Poetry Shop LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}