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Hanif Kureishi You have been back in your London home for several months now, after a year in different hospitals,
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Electric Literature is pleased to reveal the cover for the poetry collection Book of Kin by Darius Atefat-Peckham, which will be published by Autumn House Press on Oct. 25, 2024. Preorder the book here . A debut collection that draws on the poet’s Iranian heritage to process life-altering loss and grief. 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. Take a break from the news We publish your favorite authors—even the ones you haven’t read yet. Get new fiction, essays, and poetry delivered to your inbox. Submit YOUR INBOX IS LIT Enjoy strange, diverting work from The Commuter on Mondays, absorbing fiction from Recommended Reading on Wednesdays, and a roundup of our best work of the week on Fridays. Personalize your subscription preferences here. Here is the cover, designed by Melissa Dias-Mandoly, artwork by Hemad Javadzade. Illustration of hourglass Author Darius Atefat-Peckham: As an Iranian-American who’s not yet been able to visit Iran (for reasons both personal and political), whose mother and brother died before I could remember them, I profoundly relate to the ever-seeking nature of Hemad Javadzade’s The Now (which he’s graciously allowed us to use as the cover of Book of Kin !). In this piece, Javadzade depicts Time, distant […]
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Hanif Kureishi You have been back in your London home for several months now, after a year in different hospitals,
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