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I Hope This Helps

I Hope This Helps

Bashir, Samiya

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $18.95

ISBN10: 1643622722
ISBN13: 9781643622729
Publisher: Nightboat Books
Published: May 13 2025
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Bending genre as a planetary body might bend spacetime, Bashir's poems live as music and film, as memoir, observation, and critique, as movement across both cosmic and poetic fields.


I Hope This Helps reflects on the excruciating metamorphosis of an artist, a twinkle-textured disco-ball Jenga set constrained and shaped by the limits of our reality: time, money, work, not to mention compounding global crises. Think of a river constrained by levees, a bonsai clipped and bent, a human body bursting through shapewear. Begging the question, what can it mean to thrive in the world as it is, Bashir says, Rats thrive in sewers so / maybe I'm thriving. In these moving, sometimes harrowing meditations, Bashir reveals her vulnerable inner life, how she has built herself brick by brick into an artist.

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