The Palace

2019

• The New Yorker
• Archive.is

I certainly can't introduce the poem better than Kevin Young can, as he writes in his short introduction:

"Kaveh Akbar’s long poem “The Palace” is both magical and matter-of-fact. The voice is by turn declarative and distraught. Finally, the poem is about love, including the poet’s love for a country in which he is “always elsewhere,” with poetry the ultimate homeland."