{"product_id":"9781526665867","title":"I cannot be good until you say it","description":"Author: Ahsan, Sanah\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781526665867\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Bloomsbury\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 04 Jun 2024\u003cbr\u003ePages: 112 Format: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE POLARI PRIZE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eThe much-anticipated debut collection by the winner of the Outspoken Performance Poetry Prize- a tender meditation on queerness and Islam\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Dissolving whatever boundaries would wall us off from love, Ahsan finds a way to let it all be holy' Victoria Adukwei-Bulley\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'When I speak of the word \"sacred\", Sanah Ahsan's \u003ci\u003eI cannot be good until you say it\u003c\/i\u003e will forever instantly spring to mind ... A masterpiece - an honour to have read this book, I am forever changed after reading its beauty' Nikita Gill\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Innovative and deeply compassionate ... multilingual verse suffused with a vital musicality and a palpable tenderness, Ahsan calls poetry into prayer and evokes a faith safe enough to be mothered by' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eMary Jean Chan\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Dexterous, varied, erotic, filled with rage, worships and wonder ... I am electrified' P idraig    Tuama\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Tensions of psychological drama, together with an induced sense of yearning.. what an artful and inspired set of poems' Anthony Anaxagorou\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Liberation is at the nucleus of every page of Sanah Ahsan's rousing debut ... Ahsan is doing liberation work, offering readers a prayer, a song, a hand to hold amidst the amidst' Kaveh Akbar\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A remarkable and transformative collection' Keith Jarrett\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A daring debut collection, which guides us through the complexities of just being' Yomi Sode\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Alive with a want and restlessness that remakes the \"You\" of desire - and faith - again and again' Will Harris\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A heart punching debut collection' Raymond Antrobus\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e______________________________________________\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntricately weaving Quranic verse, psychology, and the hip-hop soundtrack of their childhood, Sanah's poems reach for divinity in the body; an archive that refuses erasure.\u003cbr\u003eThese poems traverse unruly emotional and physical landscapes, Whiteness, islamophobia, homophobia, intergenerational suffering, and the politics of therapeutic processes. In these pages, belief and unbelief, goodness and badness, the material and spiritual are intertwined, reclaiming queer love and desire as holy.\u003cbr\u003eHow are we incarcerated by others' gazes? Who gets to be good in a society built upon hierarchy? How might we embrace each other's madnesses? Sanah Ahsan asks questions that travel to the heart of our humanness, bending the lines between psychologist and client to show us the sacred nature of our wounds. These poems kneel to the messiness of being alive, building altars to complication and presence. \u003cbr\u003eRefusing binaries of gender or religious doctrine, \u003ci\u003eI cannot be good until you say it\u003c\/i\u003e finds what is to be revered in the grey spaces of morality, advancing imagination and self-compassion as sites of communion.\u003cbr\u003eThis debut collection is a call to prayer, fearlessly complicating what is good, and what is god.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46643215761566,"sku":"UBD-9781526665867","price":22.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781526665867.jpg?v=1774484276","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781526665867","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}