A POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATIONI could not be held responsiblefor desirehe could not be held at all Tracking the joys & pains of the path through addiction & wrestling with desire inheritance & faith Calling a Wolf a Wolf is the darkly sumptuous debut from award-winning poet Kaveh Akbar These are powerful intimate poems of thirst for alcohol for other bodies for knowledge & for life' The struggle from late youth on with & without God agony narcotics & love is a torment rarely recorded with such sustained eloquence & passion as you will find in this collection'FANNY HOWE' Compelling strange always beautiful' ROXANE GAY AUTHOR OF BAD FEMINIST & HUNGER' Truly brilliant'JOHN GREEN AUTHOR OF THE FAULT IN OUR STARS'A breathtaking addition to the canon of addiction literature'PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (STARRED REVIEW)