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Title: Book of Kin
Author: Darius Atefat-Peckham
ISBN: 9781637680964
Publisher: Autumn House Press
Published: 2024
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Condition Note: New from the publisher
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A debut collection that draws on the poet’s Iranian heritage to process life-altering loss and 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 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.
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