{"product_id":"i-hope-this-helps-2","title":"I Hope This Helps","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBending 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI Hope This Helps \u003c\/i\u003ereflects 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nightboat Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54249365406040,"sku":"9781643622729","price":18.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781643622729_2fbbaf5b-55ce-4e95-8df2-6c980ab66d59.jpg?v=1770728423","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/i-hope-this-helps-2","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}