Featured Poet: Kaveh Akbar – The Indianapolis Review
By-Natalie Solmer In Kaveh Akbar’s poem, “Exciting the Canvas,” the speaker of the poem proclaims, “It doesn’t take much / to love a saint like me. / On a gravel road, the soft tissues / of my eye …
By-Natalie Solmer In Kaveh Akbar’s poem, “ Exciting the Canvas ,” the speaker of the poem proclaims, “It doesn’t take much / to love a saint like me. / On a gravel road, the soft tissues / of my eye detect a snake curling / around a tree branch. Because I am here / each of these things has a name.” This speaker, throughout Akbar’s full length collection, Calling A Wolf A Wolf , is saint and seer, but is also struggling: wild with thirst and yearning, fallen from grace. Yet they never forget their divine nature, here by invoking the biblical naming of the animals and tree of knowledge with its
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