{"product_id":"i-hope-this-helps-paperback","title":"I Hope This Helps - Paperback","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\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.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378526650591,"sku":"9781643622729","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/WM5woA-F6C9781643622729.webp?v=1789257976","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/i-hope-this-helps-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}