Portrait of the Alcoholic by Kaveh Akbar

Portrait of the Alcoholic

Kaveh Akbar

45 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction poetry emotional reflective slow-paced
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"Was it Jung who speculated that alcoholism might be an attempt at a material solution for a spiritual problem? Kaveh Akbar seems able to contain both--he's a demotic, as well as a spiritual, poet (the only type of either I trust). Each word in th...

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Moods

reflective 100%
emotional 80%
challenging 60%
dark 60%
funny 20%
hopeful 20%
inspiring 20%
sad 20%

Pace

fast 62%
medium 25%
slow 12%

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4.39

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