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
Because the rain was the same rain you used to call pain rain, the big cold drops stinging our naked necks, because we all
I watch you near dusk squeezing the orange, turning it, pushing pulp against the rind. The halves you leave, backs touching on the
2021 With nights cold, the month akimbo, like the year, I was not surprised to find some limbs gnarled, blighted. It took me a