I cannot be good until you say it by Sanah Ahsan (Bloomsbury) Karen McCarthy Woolf Learning that your mind and

Learning that your mind and body have been taken hostage is one thing

’ Fourth Person Singular continues to blow open the relationship between self and world in a working through of lyric shame

now stubborn

With its ‘radical simplicity and seriousness of purpose

Published 17th October 2024

I cannot be good until you say it by Sanah Ahsan (Bloomsbury) Karen McCarthy Woolf Learning that your mind andIntricately 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. These 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,