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Every Drunk Wants to Die Sober It’s How We Beat the Game

Kaveh Akbar - "Every Drunk Wants to Die Sober It's How We Beat The Game"

“I do hope one day to be free of this body’s dry wood...” In this Button Poetry video, Kaveh Akbar, author of the poetry collection, Calling a Wolf a Wolf (Alice James Books, 2017), reads a poem that was published in Tin House’s “The Rehab Issue” in 2017.

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Kaveh Akbar
Calling a Wolf a Wolf
Alice James Books
2017
Button Poetry
Tin House

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