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The Afterlife of Sweetness: Poems

Name: The Afterlife of Sweetness: Poems
Brand: Mad Creek Books
SKU: 9780814259719
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Contributors:

Jaia Hamid Bashir

Publisher:

Mad Creek Books

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Poetry

Book Subcategory:

Subjects & Themes, Women Authors

Book Topic:

Death, Grief, Loss, Diversity & Multicultural

Series:

The Journal Charles B. Wheeler Poetry Prize

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Release Date:

2/27/2026

ISBN 13:

9780814259719

Weight:

0.28 lbs

Size:

9.00 x 6.00 x 0.21 inches

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Jaia Hamid Bashir's The Afterlife of Sweetness searches for beauty in waste and for mercy in defiance of a Muslim American girlhood. Haunted by lost lovers, Islamic theology, Hindu and Greek epics, and fractured selves, these poems trace the erotic contours of belief and the hungers that shape our becoming. They move among abandoned mining towns, gas stations, Qur'anic caves, suburbia, the American West, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art-- braiding myth with memory and eros with rot to dissect what remains after the beloved has vanished. Dogs, oysters, deer, goats, and maggots appear as traveling companions; neon signs hum beside Lorca, Celan, and the Mahabharata. Throughout, Bashir exhorts us to confront sites of both the profane and the sacred and asks: How do we endure love, dissipation, and time? Recalling the work of Kaveh Akbar, Frank Stanford, and Rumi, and Jorie Graham, The Afterlife of Sweetness is both pilgrimage and detour, never veering from its insistence that holiness is not elsewhere but here.

About the Author
Jaia Hamid Bashir was born to South Asian immigrant artists. Her work has appeared in Poetry Magazine, The American Poetry Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. She has received numerous prize recognitions. She is the author of the chapbook Desire/Halves.The Afterlife of Sweetness is her debut full-length collection.

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