Special Feature: Edil Hassan
April 14, 2022
One Self I Sing In the Qur’an, poets are depicted as bewildering liars. Language—an unlawful alchemy, a sinner’s sihr. On the one-on-one datewith God, I shout, Deny me an afterlife! I’ll just make a new one,and horns sprout from my head. My mother, workshoppingher childhood, recalls stolen shillings and the emptied pocketsof nuns. What is...