{"product_id":"9781643622729","title":"I Hope This Helps by Samiya Bashir","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56302788215157,"sku":"9781643622729","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781643622729.jpg?v=1762793280","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781643622729","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}