Akbar’s sophomore collection beats with the same heart that animated his debut--Calling a Wolf a Wolf--while revealing the poet as a powerhouse of form and faith. Here Akbar pledges his commitment to look at the whole; no matter how flawed, here is the body, recovering, and here is the Divine’s landscape resurrected in the everyday. Pilgrim Bell peals; throughout the book, its ring and response mark the first and penultimate poem of each section. No matter how deep the speaker leads us into his religious upbringing or the body's wounds, there’s a moment of pause on the return in the end-stopped lines of each eponymous poem.