The BookThug Interview:
Aisha Sasha John, author of The Shining Material
In The Shining Material, Aisha Sasha John is a hostess; welcome to her house. Inside there is a party, a prayer,
a painting that puts its fingers in your mouth - let it: in The Shining Material witness Aisha Sasha John braid self-portraiture,
ekphrasis, and her own brand of psalm to create a collection of poems that is a tonic: dizzying in its open-mouthed, symphonic charge.
These poems stage intimate encounters as they work against the language of the banal.