Akbar, Kaveh, ed. The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse: 110 Poets on the Divine. 2022. London: Penguin Books, 2023. I enjoy Akbar’s own work, and I am very interested in the intersection of literature and religion, and I am obsessed with Penguin paperbacks, so when I came across this book while browsing at the StrandContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently: Poetry Edition”
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Books Acquired Recently: AWP Edition
I attended AWP‘s annual conference this past week and came back with lots of books! Here’s what I got, with some explanatory notes as necessary. Akbar, Kaveh. Pilgrim Bell: Poems. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2021. I attended a panel that Akbar was part of and had him sign this book afterwards. He was incredibly sweet andContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently: AWP Edition”