{"product_id":"i-hope-this-helps","title":"I Hope This Helps","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eI Hope This Helps\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eSamiya Bashir\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781643622729\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eNightboat Books\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2025\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\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\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\/body\u003e","brand":"Nightboat Books","offers":[{"title":"I Hope This Helps | Samiya Bashir | Paperback | 9781643622729 | New | Poetry 1683594","offer_id":50768339861762,"sku":"1683594","price":33.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/81lEE9wuA3L.jpg?v=1792116559","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/i-hope-this-helps","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}