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Jaia Hamid Bashir
Jaia Hamid Bashir's high lyricism is also high spiritual engagement--Bashir does not write from the Earth to rhapsodize the beauty of the stars, but instead writes from the stars to rhapsodize the beauty of the Earth. - Shane McCrae
This mouth is a wound from where I'm learning how to love." Desire/ Halves is a lush read of infinite tenderness. I marvel at Bashir’s dexterous use of language and sensuous, striking imagery—the “silverhurry” of moon, “اااااا blades of grass.” I could look forever through Bashir’s eyes if it meant seeing the world like this. A masterful, vivid debut—here is a voice to pay attention to." - Leila Chatti
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