Book of Kin Reviewed in Still

Darius Atefat-Peckham’s debut poetry collection, Book of Kin, received a warm and thoughtful review in the most recent issue of Still. Of the book, the reviewer Neema Avashia wrote:

Book of Kin is the first book that I’ve read through this mothering lens. The first book that’s caused me to consider the way that both a mother’s presence, and her absence, can shape a child—the first book that sits at the same intersection of deep grief and deep joy that I find myself at so often in these early years of parenting. Time and time again while reading Book of Kin, I was stopped by the potency of Atefat-Peckham’s words, by his ability to arrest me with a question, as in “Heathcliffs,” where he writes, “If she was too good for this world, as they say, what does that make me, still standing here, gathering myself at the gate?”