Bending genre as a planetary body might bend spacetime Bashirs poems live as music and film as memoir observation and critique as movement across both cosmic and poetic fields.I Hope This Helpsampamp160reflects on the excruciating metamorphosis of an artist a twinkletextured discoball Jenga set constrained and shaped by the limits of our reality time money work not to mention compounding global crises. Think of a river constrained by levees a bonsai clipped and bent a human body bursting through shapewear. Begging the question what can it mean to thrive in the world as it is Bashir says ampamp8220Rats thrive in sewers so maybe Im thriving.ampamp8221 In these moving sometimes harrowing meditations Bashir reveals her vulnerable inner life how she has built herself brick by brick into an artist.