Book of Kin
Autor Darius Atefat-Peckhamen Limba Engleză Paperback – 25 oct 2024
Darius 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 dead.
Inspired 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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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781637680964
ISBN-10: 1637680961
Pagini: 96
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Editura: Autumn House Press
Colecția Autumn House Press
ISBN-10: 1637680961
Pagini: 96
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Editura: Autumn House Press
Colecția Autumn House Press
Notă biografică
Darius Atefat-Peckham is the author of the chapbook How Many Love Poems and editor of his mother Susan Atefat-Peckham’s posthumous collection Deep Are These Distances Between Us. His work has appeared in Poetry Magazine, Poem-a-Day, Georgia Review, Indiana Review, The Journal, Rattle, and elsewhere and has been published in anthologies including My Shadow is My Skin: Voices from the Iranian Diaspora. In 2018, he was selected by the Library of Congress as a National Student Poet and he is currently a poetry fellow at the Michener Center for Writers in Austin, Texas.
Cuprins
CYRUS, OR TO TOUCH A GHOST
IN A CHILD’S HAND
WINDCHIMES
THE BIRTHDAY FAIRY
THE TURKISH COFFEE LADY
SUNDERED SONNET: IF WE SHOULD BE GHOSTS
MOTHER
SECOND MOTHER
DAR HAVAYAT, IN YOUR AIR
THE PATIENT STONE
ODE TO THE HOUSE WHERE I WAS BORN
THROAT OF YOUR HOUR
ONCE MOURNED
THEY WAKE ME
DEATH REPORT
I LEARN A LANGUAGE I’M TOO AFRAID TO SPEAK
ALL BODIES
IF I WANT TO GO THERE I HAVE TO WATCH WHAT I SAY
ACTIONS, PRESENCES, SCARS
POST-LOSS CHECKLIST
HEATHCLIFFS
THE OUTER REACHES
THE NIGHT BEFORE MY MOTHER DIED, THEY SLEPT (IN SEPARATE ROOMS)
LEARNING TO PRAY
THE STAR-TAKER
OF BLUEBERRIES
IMAGINE THE LAKE. CYRUS IS ALIVE
HAUNT
CORONATION
BOOK OF KIN
SUNDERED SONNET: THEY SAY I SPEAK BETTER PERSIAN THAN MY MOTHER’S, BUT
MEMORIAL MURAL FOR THE PERSIAN [PICASSO]
REPORT CARD
LOVE POEM TO THE GARDEN SNAIL
SURROUNDINGS
SUSIE’S LETTER: AN ERASURE
HOW LONG TO WAIT THERE WHEN THE BREATHING STOPS
IN A CHILD’S HAND
WINDCHIMES
THE BIRTHDAY FAIRY
THE TURKISH COFFEE LADY
SUNDERED SONNET: IF WE SHOULD BE GHOSTS
MOTHER
SECOND MOTHER
DAR HAVAYAT, IN YOUR AIR
THE PATIENT STONE
ODE TO THE HOUSE WHERE I WAS BORN
THROAT OF YOUR HOUR
ONCE MOURNED
THEY WAKE ME
DEATH REPORT
I LEARN A LANGUAGE I’M TOO AFRAID TO SPEAK
ALL BODIES
IF I WANT TO GO THERE I HAVE TO WATCH WHAT I SAY
ACTIONS, PRESENCES, SCARS
POST-LOSS CHECKLIST
HEATHCLIFFS
THE OUTER REACHES
THE NIGHT BEFORE MY MOTHER DIED, THEY SLEPT (IN SEPARATE ROOMS)
LEARNING TO PRAY
THE STAR-TAKER
OF BLUEBERRIES
IMAGINE THE LAKE. CYRUS IS ALIVE
HAUNT
CORONATION
BOOK OF KIN
SUNDERED SONNET: THEY SAY I SPEAK BETTER PERSIAN THAN MY MOTHER’S, BUT
MEMORIAL MURAL FOR THE PERSIAN [PICASSO]
REPORT CARD
LOVE POEM TO THE GARDEN SNAIL
SURROUNDINGS
SUSIE’S LETTER: AN ERASURE
HOW LONG TO WAIT THERE WHEN THE BREATHING STOPS
Recenzii
"[Atefat-Peck's] poems explore the grief that accompanies losing a mother and brother early in childhood; the cultural bereavement that comes from being unable to fully access the country, the culture, the language of his mother’s family. But alongside that grief, there is this clarion call to love, to holding those still here with a kind of tenderness."
“I’m overwhelmed by the love and care in the gorgeous Book of Kin by Atefat-Peckham. These immensely tender, radiant poems sing love for a mother, a father, a brother, language, the courageous women of Iran, and memory itself. ‘You are your own / son. North is north, wherever/you are.’ Fluid and fluent, humble and ever-seeking, Atefat-Peckham welcomes us all into a nest that contains everything humans can live. He gives us room.”
“Praise for Atefat-Peckham’s debut poetry collection Book of Kin and its compelling, profound, and worldly poems! With exquisite language and soulful reflections, each poem unfurls a kaleidoscope of experiences. An exploration of grief and cultural identity emerges, walking the line between connection and belonging as the speaker examines the nature of loss. Atefat-Peckham is a bright, bright light, and this collection is simply beautiful.”
"How do we honor those we love? How do we grieve those we barely knew? How do we muster the capacity to sing joy and even praise in a world riddled with violence? In poems at once intimate and epic, Atefat-Peckham insists that we listen, that we allow ourselves to need, that we seek beloveds everywhere and in everything. Book of Kin is a revelation and a consolation—an ecstatic elegy, and a luminous incantation."
"'My mother lived, maybe, / half the life of a blueberry / bush, crown jewel of / Iran, first masterpiece / of god, eyes, dark / sheen before ruin.' This is a son’s book, a dire and loving book spoken from deep inside a legacy of grief and dislocation, in a voice exiled from the mother, the mother tongue and the mother country, reaching toward all three in lyrics fueled in equal measure by fury and devotion."
"Inhabiting a two-way graveyard, the living and dead mutually haunt each other in Darius Atefat-Peckham’s disquieting, gorgeous debut."