Audiobook I cannot be good until you say it

Author:: Sanah Ahsan
Narrator:: Sanah Ahsan
Content:: Unabridged (chapter list)
Length:: 2:04 h
Format:: MP3 download (66 MB)
Language:: English
Publisher:: Bloomsbury Poetry (2024)
Genre:: Poetry
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01 - Chapter 1	0:12	1 MB
02 - Chapter 2	0:46	1 MB
03 - Chapter 3	1:22	1 MB
04 - Chapter 4	1:09	1 MB
05 - Chapter 5	1:50	1 MB
06 - Chapter 6	1:49	1 MB
07 - Chapter 7	0:58	1 MB
08 - Chapter 8	2:05	1 MB
09 - Chapter 9	2:19	1 MB
10 - Chapter 10	1:24	1 MB
11 - Chapter 11	4:27	2 MB
12 - Chapter 12	2:32	1 MB
13 - Chapter 13	0:10	1 MB
14 - Chapter 14	3:14	1 MB
15 - Chapter 15	3:04	1 MB
16 - Chapter 16	1:08	1 MB
17 - Chapter 17	7:07	3 MB
18 - Chapter 18	1:26	1 MB
19 - Chapter 19	1:46	1 MB
20 - Chapter 20	2:19	1 MB
21 - Chapter 21	1:09	1 MB
22 - Chapter 22	2:59	1 MB
23 - Chapter 23	2:32	1 MB
24 - Chapter 24	3:21	1 MB
25 - Chapter 25	0:56	1 MB
26 - Chapter 26	1:21	1 MB
27 - Chapter 27	0:29	1 MB
28 - Chapter 28	1:13	1 MB
29 - Chapter 29	1:11	1 MB
30 - Chapter 30	1:39	1 MB
31 - Chapter 31	1:54	1 MB
32 - Chapter 32	1:43	1 MB
33 - Chapter 33	2:19	1 MB
34 - Chapter 34	1:25	1 MB
35 - Chapter 35	3:05	1 MB
36 - Chapter 36	1:42	1 MB
37 - Chapter 37	2:25	1 MB
38 - Chapter 38	0:18	1 MB
39 - Chapter 39	3:33	1 MB
40 - Chapter 40	3:13	1 MB
41 - Chapter 41	2:41	1 MB
42 - Chapter 42	2:17	1 MB
43 - Chapter 43	1:24	1 MB
44 - Chapter 44	2:07	1 MB
45 - Chapter 45	0:24	1 MB
46 - Chapter 46	3:00	1 MB
47 - Chapter 47	1:26	1 MB
48 - Chapter 48	1:59	1 MB
49 - Chapter 49	1:42	1 MB
50 - Chapter 50	0:44	1 MB
51 - Chapter 51	1:57	1 MB
52 - Chapter 52	1:53	1 MB
53 - Chapter 53	1:59	1 MB
54 - Chapter 54	1:30	1 MB
55 - Chapter 55	2:45	1 MB
56 - Chapter 56	6:40	3 MB
57 - Chapter 57	8:33	5 MB
58 - Chapter 58	1:27	1 MB

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Summary

Bloomsbury presents I cannot be good until you say it written and read by Sanah Ahsan.
The much-anticipated debut collection by the winner of the Outspoken Performance Poetry Prize: a tender meditation on queerness and Islam
'Dissolving whatever boundaries would wall us off from love, Ahsan finds a way to let it all be holy' Victoria Adukwei-Bulley
'When I speak of the word "sacred", Sanah Ahsan's I cannot be good until you say it will forever instantly spring to mind ... A masterpiece – an honour to have read this book, I am forever changed after reading its beauty' Nikita Gill
'Innovative and deeply compassionate ... multilingual verse suffused with a vital musicality and a palpable tenderness, Ahsan calls poetry into prayer and evokes a faith safe enough to be mothered by' Mary Jean Chan
'Dexterous, varied, erotic, filled with rage, worships and wonder ... I am electrified' Pádraig Ó Tuama
'Tensions of psychological drama, together with an induced sense of yearning.. what an artful and inspired set of poems' Anthony Anaxagorou
'Liberation is at the nucleus of every page of Sanah Ahsan's rousing debut ... Ahsan is doing liberation work, offering readers a prayer, a song, a hand to hold amidst the amidst' Kaveh Akbar
'A remarkable and transformative collection' Keith Jarrett
'A daring debut collection, which guides us through the complexities of just being' Yomi Sode
'Alive with a want and restlessness that remakes the "You" of desire – and faith – again and again' Will Harris
'A heart punching debut collection' Raymond Antrobus
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Intricately 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, reclaiming queer love and desire as holy.
How are we incarcerated by others' gazes? Who gets to be good in a society built upon hierarchy? How might we embrace each other's madnesses? Sanah Ahsan asks questions that travel to the heart of our humanness, bending the lines between psychologist and client to show us the sacred nature of our wounds. These poems kneel to the messiness of being alive, building altars to complication and presence.
Refusing binaries of gender or religious doctrine, I cannot be good until you say it finds what is to be revered in the grey spaces of morality, advancing imagination and self-compassion as sites of communion.
This debut collection is a call to prayer, fearlessly complicating what is good, and what is god.

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