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“A debut poetry collection showcasing both a fierce and tender new voice.”—Booklist
“Elegant and playful . . . The poet invents new forms and updates classic ones.”—Elle
“[Fatimah] Asghar interrogates divisions along lines of nationality, age, and gender, illuminating the forces by which identity is fixed or flexible.”—The New Yorker
NAMED ONE OF THE TOP TEN BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY • FINALIST FOR THE LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD
an aunt teaches me how to tell
an edible flower
from a poisonous one.
just in case, I hear her say, just in case.
From a co-creator of the Emmy-nominated web series Brown Girls comes an imaginative, soulful debut poetry that collection captures the experiences of being a young Pakistani Muslim woman in contemporary America. Orphaned as a child, Fatimah Asghar grapples with coming of age and navigating questions of sexuality and race without the guidance of a mother or father. These poems at once bear anguish, joy, vulnerability, and compassion, while also exploring the many facets of violence how it persists within us, how it is inherited across generations, and how it manifests itself in our relationships. In experimental forms and language both lyrical and raw, Asghar seamlessly braids together marginalized people’s histories with her own understanding of identity, place, and belonging.
Praise for If They Come for Us
“In forms both traditional . . . and unorthodox . . . Asghar interrogates divisions along lines of nationality, age, and gender, illuminating the forces by which identity is fixed or flexible. Most vivid and revelatory are pieces such as ‘Boy,’ whose perspicacious turns and irreverent idiom conjure the rich, jagged textures of a childhood shadowed by loss.”—The New Yorker
“[Asghar’s] debut poetry collection cemented her status as one of the city’s greatest present-day poets. . . . A stunning work of art that tackles place, race, sexuality and violence. These poems—both personal and historical, both celebratory and aggrieved—are unquestionably powerful in a way that would doubtless make both Gwendolyn Brooks and Harriet Monroe proud.”—Chicago Review of Books
“Taut lines, vivid language, and searing images range cover to cover. . . . Inventive, sad, gripping, and beautiful.”—Library Journal (starred review)
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"If They Come for Us is a powerful poetry collection I'm pleased to have somehow ended up purchasing online. I'm currently teaching a creative writing workshop around the theme of Cloaks and using several poems from this book as an example (the head covering in this case being the cloak)."
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If They Come for Us Poems Fatimah Asghar Books Reviews :
If They Come for Us Poems Fatimah Asghar Books Reviews
- A debut poetry collection that looks into what it's like to be a Pakistani Muslim woman in America. Filled with anger, joy, confusion and love, she tells her story. A story of being orphaned, coming of age without a mother, questions about race and sexuality, and love for a world that put a target on her back. For such a short book, it packs a wallop.
Is this the best book of poetry ever written? No. But it's good, and it's important. I find myself gravitating more and more toward stories about immigrants or other cultures in America, what they have to deal with, how they try to adapt, because I fear becoming complacent- forgetting for even a moment that what is so easy for me isn't for everyone- that we aren't all equal in other's eyes even if everyone is in mine. Does this make sense or am I just rambling? For me, the first step toward making an America that loves and accepts everyone is accepting the differences and the past- what they had to go through and their heritage. I want to understand how others feel, because ignorance is just not an option. As I have always found I learn and understand best when things are written, it just makes sense for me to seek books like these out.
Excuse me while I climb down from my soap box.  The poems and exerts here made me smile sometimes, and cry in others. It made me feel, as all good writing should. I found pieces that surprised me, and resonated with me. It was honest, open and beautiful... even if the prose were just a tad imperfect. Actually, maybe more so because of that. For me, this is a four star collection.
On the adult content, there's some language and it does touch on some more adult themes but I still see this as being very teen friendly. I give it a three. - The book was first and foremost so enlightening. I learned so much about partition and plan to learn so much more. I heard Fatimah Asghar read at Split this Rock and have been excited to dive into the since then. The poetry is playful and gutteral, light and dark. It is breaking and healing all at the same time. I appreciate that she doesn't italicize anything which forces you to do your research and question the ease of understanding you take for granted as an English speaker. The book is an invitation into the experience of being "other" and traversing culture, never really being a part of either. Longing for home. "If They Come For Us" is an introduction to a great poet I can't wait to re-meet.
- Beautifully written, funny and creative with forms (almost every poem tries something new, from mad lib style news stories to a screenplay about the author’s family fleeing Kashmir during Partition). If you’re any minority at all and even remotely interested in history or coming-of-age poems, you’ll enjoy this. I would recommend it to everyone since these are such important conversations which too few people have. Wow that sounds like a bot wrote it... this was just a really good book, okay?
- If They Come for Us is a powerful poetry collection I'm pleased to have somehow ended up purchasing online. I'm currently teaching a creative writing workshop around the theme of Cloaks and using several poems from this book as an example (the head covering in this case being the cloak).
- I devoured these poems with such ferocity. I loved every single one of them. I highly recommend
- Beautiful book, for content it is great. However, the book’s cover had some clear, sticky substance lightly splattered over it which bummed me out.
- Great!
- Love it!!!! Can’t recommend it enough
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