Dios me hizo el agujero de la boca

God Made Me the Hole in My Mouth is a journey in verse, a meditation on the relationship between faith and doubt, body and word, memory and silence. In this collection of poems, Kaveh Akbar explores the tension that unites the sacred and the human, the ecstasy where they converge. In each poem, the reader will find fragments of daily life interwoven with ancient rituals: kneeling, breathing, remembering are all part of life and prayer. Following the revolution sparked by his debut novel, Martyr!, we present here thirty-four essential poems that speak to the reader of what constitutes Akbar's identity: the infinite emptiness of the absence of a loved one, austerity, his life as a Muslim in a deeply Islamophobic nation, the self-destruction of addiction. A resonant, revealing, and sacred reading that introduces one of the most important poets of his generation.