I cannot be good until you say it by Sanah Ahsan (Bloomsbury) Karen McCarthy Woolf pale light after the rain

pale light after the rain

With its ‘radical simplicity and seriousness of purpose

now stubborn

conjures a jazzed hybrid language to tell stories of aspiration

and editor Karen McCarthy Woolf

I cannot be good until you say it by Sanah Ahsan (Bloomsbury) Karen McCarthy Woolf pale light after the rainIntricately 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,