Samiya Bashir
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Born
in Amidst Midwestern cornfields, in an Ypsilanti hospital that burned down long ago., The United States
October 27
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July 2007
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Field Theories
3 editions
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2017
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Best Black Women's Erotica 2
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2003
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Freeman's. Animali
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Where the Apple Falls
3 editions
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2005
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Gospel: poems
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2009
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Bettering American Poetry, Volume 2
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Queer Codex: Rooted!
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2008
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An Ecotone Almanac
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Tuesday; An Art Project, Volume 6, Issue 2
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Samiya’s Recent Updates
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“It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.”
― Kafka on the Shore
― Kafka on the Shore

“Extinguish my eyes, I'll go on seeing you.
Seal my ears, I'll go on hearing you.
And without feet I can make my way to you,
without a mouth I can swear your name.
Break off my arms, I'll take hold of you
with my heart as with a hand.
Stop my heart, and my brain will start to beat.
And if you consume my brain with fire,
I'll feel you burn in every drop of my blood.”
―
Seal my ears, I'll go on hearing you.
And without feet I can make my way to you,
without a mouth I can swear your name.
Break off my arms, I'll take hold of you
with my heart as with a hand.
Stop my heart, and my brain will start to beat.
And if you consume my brain with fire,
I'll feel you burn in every drop of my blood.”
―

No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read ...more

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