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Another Last Call: Poems on Addiction and Deliverance
An anthology edited by acclaimed poets Kaveh Akbar and Paige Lewis. In 1997, Sarabande published Last Call , a poetry anthology that became a formative text on the lived experiences of addiction. Now, more than twenty-five years later, editors Kaveh Akbar and Paige Lewis offer this companion volume for a new generation.Ìý Another Last Poems on Addiction & Deliverance showcases work from poets like Joy Harjo, Afaa M. Weaver, Diane Seuss, Layli Long Soldier, Sharon Olds, Jericho Brown, Ada Limón, and Ocean Vuong, as well as many new and powerful voices.
Ìý Samuel Ace, Chase Berggrun, Sherwin Bitsui, Sophie Cabot Black, Jericho Brown, Anthony Ceballos, Marianne Chan, Jos Charles, Brendan Constantine, Cynthia Cruz, Steven Espada Dawson, Megan Denton Ray, MartÃn Espada, Megan Fernandes, Sarah Gorham, Joy Harjo, Mary Karr, Sophie Klahr, Michael Klein, Dana Levin, Ada Limón, Zach Linge, Layli Long Soldier, Sharon Olds, Airea Dee Matthews, Joshua Mehigan, Tomás Q. MorÃn, Erin Noehrem, Joy Priest, Dana Roeser, sam sax, Diane Seuss, Natalie Shapero, Katie Jean Shinkle, Jeffrey Skinner, Bernardo Wade, Afaa M. Weaver, The Cyborg Jillian Weise, Phillip B. Williams, Ocean Vuong
Ìý Samuel Ace, Chase Berggrun, Sherwin Bitsui, Sophie Cabot Black, Jericho Brown, Anthony Ceballos, Marianne Chan, Jos Charles, Brendan Constantine, Cynthia Cruz, Steven Espada Dawson, Megan Denton Ray, MartÃn Espada, Megan Fernandes, Sarah Gorham, Joy Harjo, Mary Karr, Sophie Klahr, Michael Klein, Dana Levin, Ada Limón, Zach Linge, Layli Long Soldier, Sharon Olds, Airea Dee Matthews, Joshua Mehigan, Tomás Q. MorÃn, Erin Noehrem, Joy Priest, Dana Roeser, sam sax, Diane Seuss, Natalie Shapero, Katie Jean Shinkle, Jeffrey Skinner, Bernardo Wade, Afaa M. Weaver, The Cyborg Jillian Weise, Phillip B. Williams, Ocean Vuong
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150 pages, Paperback
Published October 24, 2023
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About the author
Kaveh Akbar
29Ìýbooks2,086ÌýfollowersKaveh Akbar's poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, Tin House, PBS NewsHour, A Public Space, Guernica, Boston Review, and elsewhere. He is a recipient of a 2016 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation and the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. He is also the founder and editor of Divedapper, a home for dialogues with vital voices in contemporary poetry.
His first full-length collection, Calling a Wolf a Wolf, was published in 2017.
Kaveh was born in Tehran, Iran and currently lives in Iowa. He was a visiting professor at Purdue University in Indiana in Fall 2017.
His first full-length collection, Calling a Wolf a Wolf, was published in 2017.
Kaveh was born in Tehran, Iran and currently lives in Iowa. He was a visiting professor at Purdue University in Indiana in Fall 2017.
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October 7, 2024“It’s / been a while since I had / enough money to be that / beautiful and echoing.�
December 4, 2023
Each poem a reminder of the extreme and deliciously painful need to experience oneself.
May 14, 2024
Fantastic collection
April 11, 2025
i.e. Put down that gun, you need a sandwich.
August 21, 2024
Big slay
October 26, 2023
A stunning poetry anthology edited by Kaveh Akbar and Paige Lewis, Another Last Call (Sarabande Books, October 2023) takes us through the lives of those struggling with active addiction, who are recovering from addiction, and whose lives have been affected by loved ones� addictions. The grief of these experiences is immeasurable—I am reminded that for so many of us, it is truly recovery or death, a living-death or actually. These poems are striking, honest, and sobering, and having stood in the heart of some of these intersections, I found resonance here.
November 16, 2023
Another lovely book in my @the_rumpus subscription. Lots of great poems by poets I already loved (omg the Megan Fernandes one) and also lots of great poems by new (to me) poets I now get to obsess over: Brendan Constantine, Airea D. Mathews, Martin Espada, Marianne Chan, and Joe Charles. There’s a lot here to (oh, so painfully) love.
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Really the only frustration is the lack of at least one tiny poem from either of the editors, both of whose collections I’ve actually worn out (my copy of Paige Lewis� Space Struck is held together by tape now!).
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Really the only frustration is the lack of at least one tiny poem from either of the editors, both of whose collections I’ve actually worn out (my copy of Paige Lewis� Space Struck is held together by tape now!).
November 5, 2023
Poems I loved:
-Requiem for Guy by Bernardo Wade
-A Recovery Guide for Adult Children of Alcoholics by Megan Denton Ray
-On Alcohol by Sam Sax
-Final Poem for My Father Misnamed in My Mouth by Phillip B. Williams
-My Brother Stole Every Spoon In the House by Steven Espada Dawson
-Saturn by Sharon Olds
-Requiem for Guy by Bernardo Wade
-A Recovery Guide for Adult Children of Alcoholics by Megan Denton Ray
-On Alcohol by Sam Sax
-Final Poem for My Father Misnamed in My Mouth by Phillip B. Williams
-My Brother Stole Every Spoon In the House by Steven Espada Dawson
-Saturn by Sharon Olds
June 21, 2024
An insightful, diverse account of substance abuse, within the self as well as within the family. A proper vessel of awareness and mourning for the lives lost to drug addiction, whether it is those around us or the person one used to be.
March 20, 2024
“Because this body is my last address�
March 24, 2024
"When people say 'recurring problem,' do we actually mean 'chronic desire'?" -The Cyborg Jillian Weise
July 19, 2024
Recited one of these to my mom and she cried
February 19, 2025
Mourning and loving. Anything with Kaveh Akbar’s name on it I need on my bookshelf.
April 8, 2024
An important if slightly uneven collection. Full review to come 👀
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