Book of Kin By Darius Atefat-Peckham

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A wonderful debut collection from an incredible writer Darius is a poet whose work will transcend through decades this is a poet to watch English Gorgeous measured confident Like the owl of Sunday morning cartoons I want to see what at the tongue of a cracked bell survives is there such thing as successful revolution Some men learn to be ghosts before they ever learn to die English One of the most powerful poetry collections I ve ever read the kind of physically enthralling experience that gives you full body chills Darius Atefat Peckham writes about grief love memory and family legacy with the wisdom of generations I already know I ll return to these poems again and again English I m the writer of this collection Book of Kin was five years in the making and I m so excited for it to be out in the world The poems inside are written for my family and friends and everyone who makes my life so full of love and light Feel free to friend me here or on Instagram d. Ebook book of kings audio ap_ if you like English How to describe Book of Kin I m not sure anything that I can say will capture the immense impact reading this collection has had on me Besides his overall talent with form and technique Darius is a writer who reaches through his page and walks with the reader from day to day His words orbit my mind long after having closed the book in fact since having finished reading it I have come back to Book of Kin day after day wishing for His ideas are simplistic yet deeply philosophical His simultaneous childlike wonder yet profound wisdom confounds me I have described this book as a spaceship traveling through past and present through consciousness grief despair terrific joy through the delicate web which connects memory to dreams and fantasies I have never read art which is written with such care such compassion and adoration for those who helped create him In this book lives the most beautiful of souls mothers a father brothers grandparents martyrs strangers lovers a complex lineage of blood and not blood family It is truly a masterpiece of affection not only towards his loved ones but toward all of Darius s experiences that have stitched together his existence in this world and in the worlds of his beloveds Darius travels through different aspects of his identity as an Iranian American as well as a survivor of a metamorphic tragedy with a kind of intimate longing to come to understand the human condition and what it means to love to live While reading this I cried I laughed I was challenged comforted it was familiar it was something revolutionary I can try my hardest to explain this work beauty but I would really rather you find out for yourself English

Book of Kin By Darius Atefat-Peckham
1637680961
9781637680964
English
96
Paperback
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A debut collection that draws on the poet s Iranian heritage to process life altering loss and grief Darius Atefat Peckham s debut poetry collection follows a boy s coming of age in the aftermath of a car accident that took the lives of both his mother and brother Through these poems Atefat Peckham constructs a language for grief that is porous and revelatory spoken assuredly across the imagination bridging time and space and creating a reciprocal haunting between the living and the dead Inspired by the Persian epic The Book of Kings the Sufi mystic poetry of Rumi and his mother s poetry these poems form a path of connection between the author and his Iranian heritage Book of Kin interrogates what it means to exist between cultures to be a survivor of tragedy to practice love and joy toward one s beloveds and to hope for greater connection through poems that wade through time and memory like so many fish spreading swimming in the green blue Book of Kin won the 2023 Autumn House Poetry Prize Book of KinBook of Kin.