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“A lyric scientist at the top of her game, Samiya Bashir explores the emotional and cultural physics of desire, love, loss, family, history, and everyday existence in her new collection Field Theories. These inventive poems move across a range of psychicscapes, recentering black voices and bodies through blackbody theory and quantum mechanics, backyard meditation and bedroom lament. Bashir asks and shows with consummate artistry, what are the deep and hidden laws that divide and connect us?”

-JOHN KEENE

FIELD THEORIES
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"where lightspeed = need = constancy"

|| movement by keyon gaskin + filmed with Roland Dahwen Wu & Patua Films ||

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What sweetness in February to find two FIELD THEORIES published in The Offing, including "Third Law," as excerpted below over Barbara Gilhooly's "Grandpa's Xcellent RadioTV."

FIELD THEORIES

SAMIYA BASHIR
Publication date: March 1^st 2017

Nightboat Books
Distributed by UPNE (www.upne.com)
Paper │ $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-937658-63-2
6.25 x 8 in │ 128 pages │ Poetry

Publicity contact:
Stephen Motika at info@nightboat.org or 718-930-1062

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These poems span lyric, narrative, dramatic, and multi-media experience, engaging their containers while pushing against their constraints

Field Theories wends its way through quantum mechanics, chicken wings, Newports, and love, melding blackbody theory (idealized perfect absorption vs. the whitebody’s idealized reflection) with live Black bodies.

Woven through experimental lyrics is a heroic crown of sonnets that wonders about love, intent, identity, hybridity, and how we embody these interstices.

Albert Murray said, “the second law of thermodynamics ain’t nothin but the blues.” So what is the blue of how we treat each other, ourselves, and the world, of how the world treats us?

Samiya Bashir’s books of poetry: Field Theories (Spring 2017), Gospel, and Where the Apple Falls, and anthologies, including Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social & Political Black Literature & Art, exist.

Sometimes she makes poems of dirt.

Sometimes zeros and ones.

Sometimes variously rendered text.

Sometimes light.

She lives in Portland, Ore, with a magic cat who shares her obsessions with trees and blackbirds and occasionally crashes her classes and poetry salons at Reed College.

Photo Credit: Kenan Banks

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FRIDAY FIELD NOTES 13

Only 13 weeks left until the theory hits the streets! Don't miss your Friday fix! Subscribe & Share the 💚

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FIELD THEORIES
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