"Calling a Wolf a Wolf" was originally published by Alice James Books on Septemin the United States and was later published by Penguin Books in the United Kingdom on January 2, 2018.“Regarding loss, I’m afraid/ to keep it in the story,/ worried what I might bring back to life,” writes Akbar as he opens his much-anticipated debut collection. The poems then shift to a sense of recovery and coming to understand that instead of escaping the world that is around, find something to enjoy. The collection almost chronologically displays his enjoyment of being an alcoholic and being able to escape the world then the collection changes tones into the pain of addiction and the battling of self-persuasion to escape addiction. The structure of the collection intends to display a transformation of a man into a new better man or the man inside changing oneself. The narrative highlights the enjoyments and agonies through addiction that could cause addicts to battle their own inclination and even isolate themselves from everything and everyone to fulfill their addictions, resulting in the loneliness Akbar experienced throughout. He tells of story of how a man transformed entirely, then had to push against addiction to become a new man to better life for oneself.
Akbar uses deft language to mentally recreate the isolation that addicts feel and how the world around them may feel hypnagogic or unreal. The themes of the collection center mainly around Akbar's path through addiction and finding his way to recovery. He elaborates on how ethereal the world around him feels and how isolated his own addiction has made him and writes of the path that he ventured on his way to recovery.Ĭontent Themes & structure
Iranian-American poet Kaveh Akbar wrote this confessional poetry collection to share his experiences as an alcoholic. The collection is written to mold what Akbar felt through not only the process of and recovery from addiction but elaborates on how Akbar's addiction completely isolated him from society and made the world around him so surreal. Akbar claims this collection, along with a chapbook, Portrait of an Alcoholic, was his own personal way of processing what he experienced as an addict and even solidifying and making sense of his sobriety.
The collection of poetry is a personal narrative that follows a path through addiction and to recovery. Calling a Wolf a Wolf is a confessional collection of poetry written by Iranian-American poet Kaveh Akbar.
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