"Language Sideways: The Poetry of Addiction"

 

"Language Sideways: The Poetry of Addiction"

Check out Richard Tayson's piece on Kaveh Akbar's 2017 collection and MADNESS by Sam Sax, studying their poetry in the context of addiction...

 

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