Poetry • 96 pages
Published 5 Jul 2025
Poems by Wahid Al Mamun
“One sees in Wahid’s collection the entwining with a kind of doubled diasporic experience—once reflected in narratives of his Bangladeshi family’s experiences in Singapore, once reflected in his own experiences settling into Chicago. Such poems contain a domesticity and intimacy laced with tenderness, binding together yearning, frustration, contemplation and desire… A rage, nourished, in service of a vision of justice, for the disenfranchised in Singapore and beyond.”—QLRS
These poems strive to leap out of the collection. These poems build a bed, watch a cult film, read the news. They take endless flights between the personal and the political, between the specific contours of Singapore’s landscape and the broader trajectories of global movements and inequity. But they can never find their way home.
Written over eight years, Wahid Al Mamun’s debut collection of poems is an intricate exploration of migration, memory and love, built on the intersections of private griefs and communal narratives, uttered in a voice both tender and unflinching. What God Took Your Legs Away deftly interrogates the tensions between the body, the nation and their intertwined histories, and asks what it means to write with—and against—one’s (be)longings. It’ll bring you to your knees and take your breath away.
📌 What God Took Your Legs Away by Wahid Al Mamun is also available as an e-book at Kobo and other retailers: Amazon US
📌 Enter discount code IDESERVEIT for orders over $50 to get free local shipping.
Poetry • 96 pages
Published 5 Jul 2025
Poems by Wahid Al Mamun
“One sees in Wahid’s collection the entwining with a kind of doubled diasporic experience—once reflected in narratives of his Bangladeshi family’s experiences in Singapore, once reflected in his own experiences settling into Chicago. Such poems contain a domesticity and intimacy laced with tenderness, binding together yearning, frustration, contemplation and desire… A rage, nourished, in service of a vision of justice, for the disenfranchised in Singapore and beyond.”—QLRS
These poems strive to leap out of the collection. These poems build a bed, watch a cult film, read the news. They take endless flights between the personal and the political, between the specific contours of Singapore’s landscape and the broader trajectories of global movements and inequity. But they can never find their way home.
Written over eight years, Wahid Al Mamun’s debut collection of poems is an intricate exploration of migration, memory and love, built on the intersections of private griefs and communal narratives, uttered in a voice both tender and unflinching. What God Took Your Legs Away deftly interrogates the tensions between the body, the nation and their intertwined histories, and asks what it means to write with—and against—one’s (be)longings. It’ll bring you to your knees and take your breath away.
📌 What God Took Your Legs Away by Wahid Al Mamun is also available as an e-book at Kobo and other retailers: Amazon US
📌 Enter discount code IDESERVEIT for orders over $50 to get free local shipping.
