{"product_id":"i-hope-this-helps-9781643622729","title":"I Hope This Helps","description":"\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Nightboat Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/13\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781643622729\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60d","brand":"Samiya Bashir","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45187169550517,"sku":"9781643622729","price":16.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_b1ce745d-6ae0-4147-b1f9-35d33784d84f.jpg?v=1742271332","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/i-hope-this-helps-9781643622729","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}