Poetry between belief and doubt, addiction and recovery, intimacy and estrangement. See where Akbar shone before Martyr!

We see friendship, faith, violence, pop culture, and the body with a restless precision. Akbar’s voice is devotional and curious about God, suspicious of easy transcendence, attentive to the strange holiness of ordinary speech.

Direct, searching, and formally agile, this is a collection that treats language as both wound and instrument.