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Cyrus Shams is a young man grappling with an inheritance of violence and loss: his mother’s plane was shot down over the skies of the Persian Gulf in a senseless accident; and his father’s life in America was circumscribed by his work killing chickens at a factory farm in the Midwest. More about this book >
Kaveh Akbar‘s poems appear in The New Yorker, the New York Times, The Paris Review, The Best American Poetry, and elsewhere. He is the author of two poetry collections: Pilgrim Bell and Calling a Wolf a Wolf, in addition to a chapbook, Portrait of the Alcoholic. He is also the editor of The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse: 110 Poets on the Divine and, with Paige Lewis, co-editor of Another Last Call: Poems on Addiction & Deliverance. His debut novel, Martyr!, was a New York Times bestseller, one of the New York Times’s Ten Best Books of the Year, the 2024 recipient of the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, a Barnes & Noble Discover Prize finalist, and a National Book Award Finalist. Akbar was born in Tehran, Iran, and lives in Iowa. His work has been translated into over 30 languages.
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