Darius Atefat-Peckham Interviewed about Book of Kin

Big thanks to Green Linden Press and Daniel Lassell for this lovely, moving, and insightful interview with AHP poet Darius Atefat-Peckham about his forthcoming debut, Book of Kin. Of his book, Darius says,

Ultimately, I think this book is less a story sprung from tragic origins, one which obsessively circles back (though it does at times), and more an act of language-learning and construction, a testament to enduring love (as you rightly noted) and to love’s place in grief. My dad, a sufferer of chronic pain, used to tell me that “pain is a reminder we are still alive.” The book, then, is a conversation which includes both the desperation to become a “self,” or to become whole (to heal), and also to listen to our beloveds, to let their voices crack us open into a kind of abundance—to return to the source of grief, and as we get close to our ghosts, our hauntings, to make something of that communion that allows us to move forward.

To read the full interview, visit Green Linden Press’s website.