If They Come for Us

If They Come for Us Poems

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Publisher's Synopsis

In this powerful and imaginative debut poetry collection, Fatimah Asghar nakedly captures the experiences of being a young Pakistani Muslim woman in America by braiding together personal and marginalized people's histories. After being orphaned as a young girl, Asghar grapples with coming-of-age as a woman without the guidance of a mother, questions of sexuality and race, and navigating a world that put a target on her back. Asghar's poems at once bear anguish, joy, vulnerability, and compassion, while exploring the many facets of violence: how it persists within us, how it is inherited across generations, and how it manifests in our relationships with friends and family, and in our own understanding of identity. Using experimental forms and a mix of lyrical and brash language, Asghar confronts her own understanding of identity and place and belonging.

Book information

ISBN: 9780525509783
Publisher: One World
Imprint: One World
Pub date:
Edition: First edition
DEWEY: 811.6
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: x, 106
Weight: 134g
Height: 142mm
Width: 207mm
Spine width: 15mm