young, dumb, and full of poems

Let’s talk about it: how we fabricate intimacy,
the wet scapes of the world scolded back to rigid, flashy
direction. Don’t
you think every hero must grow
to love their algorithm?
Hasti’s debut pamphlet crackles with the electricity of life. It’s a collection of abundance, of self and world, teeming with humans, machines and everything in between.

‘young, dumb, and full of poems is what we’ll be chanting at the protest and in the club. Give it to your best barista, throw it in the levers of the machine, read it in among the flourishing weeds that crack our concrete. Growing out from the smallest noghte to span the cosmos, this pamphlet, like an ansible, will keep us together when we fear falling apart. “Louche and still wild,” Hasti’s poems are sticky with intimacy; alive with flyting across the page in unstoppable lines.’ So Mayer

‘Hasti’s observations of the world are woven in a gentle yet piercing manner in this debut pamphlet. These poems place us in our own everyday lives, waking our senses to question, challenge and most importantly, to love. A gorgeous debut.’ Yomi Ṣode

‘Hasti’s poems, once read, become part of you. Here are poems from inside the machine arm and after the meteor strike, the speaker somewhere between young and unyoung, with place, voice, and time imbricated and curling into one another, becoming weed-like, a self surviving in the gaps. In the crucible of this little book, it is a beautiful thing to be made and unmade’ Will Harris

‘A rare and refreshing read, navigating complex identities and emotions with care, delicacy, and artfulness.’ Golnoosh Nour