Reviewed by Nikki Ummel Kaveh Akbar’s second collection of poetry, published by Graywolf Press, debuted in August of 2021. A modest 76 pages, Pilgrim
The photographer posed us in such perfect arrangements—oval, diamond, fan— rising up like ivy from the Doric column of my mother or hovering like
My father often said in his 70s and 80s that he wanted to go in water—floating out beyond the sightlines of our family
The more I try to remember the more it escapes me It was probably a gray house small like a cabin Didn’t have any