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Martyr!
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ISBN-13:
9780593862759
Veröffentl:
2024
Erscheinungsdatum:
23.01.2024
Seiten:
0
Autor:
Kaveh Akbar
Gewicht:
446 g
Format:
231x153x24 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
KAVEH AKBAR’s poems appear in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Paris Review, Best American Poetry, and elsewhere. He is the author of two poetry collections: Pilgrim Bell and Calling a Wolf a Wolf, in addition to a chapbook, Portrait of the Alcoholic. He is also the editor of The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse: 100 Poets on the Divine. He lives in Iowa City.
"Cyrus Shams is a young man grappling with an inheritance of violence and loss: his mother s plane was shot down over the skies of Tehran in a senseless accident; and his father s life in America was circumscribed by his work killing chickens at a factory farm in the Midwest. Cyrus is a drunk, an addict, and a poet, whose obsession with martyrs leads him to examine the mysteries of his past--toward an uncle who rode through Iranian battlefields dressed as the Angel of death to inspire and comfort the dying, and toward his mother, through a painting discovered in a Brooklyn art gallery that suggests she may not have been who or what she seemed."