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Darius Atefat-Peckham - Book of Kin, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

Book of Kin

Av Darius Atefat-Peckham

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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.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2024-10-25
  • Mått: 152 x 229 x 8 mm
  • Vikt: 172 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 96
  • Förlag: Autumn House Press
  • ISBN: 9781637680964
  • Utmärkelser: Short-listed for Nossrat Yassini Poetry Prize 2025
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Darius Atefat-Peckham is the author of the chapbook How Many Love Poems and editor of his mother Susan Atefat-Peckham’s posthumous collection Deep Are These Distances Between Us. His work has appeared in Poetry Magazine, Poem-a-Day, Georgia Review, Indiana Review, The Journal, Rattle, and elsewhere and has been published in anthologies including My Shadow is My Skin: Voices from the Iranian Diaspora. In 2018, he was selected by the Library of Congress as a National Student Poet and he is currently a poetry fellow at the Michener Center for Writers in Austin, Texas.

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"[Atefat-Peck's] poems explore the grief that accompanies losing a mother and brother early in childhood; the cultural bereavement that comes from being unable to fully access the country, the culture, the language of his mother’s family. But alongside that grief, there is this clarion call to love, to holding those still here with a kind of tenderness."

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