by Jaia Hamid Bashir ’20
Published by nine syllables press (2024)
This debut poetry collection from Jai Hamid Bashir is a tantalizing study of desire for care and nourishment. Bashir navigates between English, Urdu, and Spanish, examining the interplay of these languages and the experience of being Pakistani-American. Bashir’s melancholy descriptions of rabbits and dogs, along with her visceral fruit imagery, connect the tender, human experience with that of the nonhuman. Alluring, mesmerizing, and evocative—this debut book of poems invites the reader to examine the embodiment of incompleteness.