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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...

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IF THEY COME FOR US
Fatimah Asghars If They Come for Us is a beautiful book of poems that, as powerfully and deeply as any book Ive read in a good while, wonders about, explores and laments our many inheritances of violence, which are also inheritances of sorrow, and the ways those inheritances reside in our bodies and imaginations. The ways those inheritances, in fact, structure our bodies and imaginations. And yet, the wonder of this book is the way that throughout the anguish and sorrow and rage, despite it, there is tenderness. There is sweetness. There is care. This book reminds us: These, too, are our inheritances.

These, too, are our heirlooms. These, too, we must pass along. ROSS GAY , author of Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and finalist for the 2015 National Book Award in Poetry I have never read a book that made me want to eat, write, revise, and love my body as much as If They Come for Us by Fatimah Asghar. This book gutted, cradled, and inspired me. Asghars work isnt simply some of the most innovative work Ive read; page after page, the book weaves productive ambiguity, textured explorations of the body, and lyrical precision into a work that is somehow just as much a mammoth book of short stories, an experimental novel, and a soulful memoir. Im not sure this nation is deserving of such a marvelous, sensual, and sensory book, but I know we needed this.

We so needed this. KIESE LAYMON , author of How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America and Long Division In the title poem of If They Come For Us, Fatimah Asghar writes, my people my people I cant be lost, a statement that is as much a call to arms as it is a fervent plea. After reading Asghars widely anticipated debut collection, I not only believed her, but began to feel that all of us could be as sacred, protected, and celebrated by looking to each others stories and considering them alongside our own. In poems that are as historically aware as they are forward-thinking, Asghar reminds us with wit, wisdom, and compassion that a truly felt and thoughtfully written poem can be many things at once: a salve, an artifact, a talisman, and a flashlight in the face of imminent darkness. This book is a brightness that will carry you as you carry it with you. TARFIA FAIZULLAH , author of Registers of Illuminated Villages and Seam With breathtaking intelligence and care, Fatimah Asghar writes enduring poems that, from varied angles, investigate the histories and resonances of the Partition across the lives of her subjects.

Her vision is attuned to the peripheries, is diasporic, and, thus, steeped in loss, simultaneities, invention. Part of the strength and vulnerability of this work is rooted in what Im thinking of as a poetics of or. Asghar does not fix or flatten her subjects, but, rather, engages each poem as at least one of several imaginative routes through which she/we might engage history and possibility. In this way, these poems bend time, encircle kin, invent new forms of saying. They laugh, lose, and lament, challenging language even as they are led by it: Allah, you gave us a language / where yesterday & tomorrow / are the same word. [] Tomorrow means I might // have her forever. [] Tomorrow means I might // have her forever.

Yesterday means / I say goodbye, again. But my chest bursts most with Ashgars ability to render the fullness of life and human effort with the tiniest of details: mehndi on fingers, blisters on the back of a heel, laughter as a way of letting someone know youre still there. I leave these poems so deeply moved by her keen observations of the ephemeral. Even as she mourns the world, there is such fierce, resilient awe everywhere here. Such poems embolden me into love and dreaming and action. ARACELIS GIRMAY , author of Kingdom Animalia and The Black Maria

Copyright 2018 by Fatimah Asghar All rights reserved Published in the United - photo 2
Copyright 2018 by Fatimah Asghar All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by One World, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York. O NE W ORLD is a registered trademark and its colophon is a trademark of Penguin Random House LLC. ISBN 9780525509783 Ebook ISBN 9780525509790 oneworldlit.com randomhousebooks.com Book design by Simon M. Sullivan, adapted for ebook Cover illustration: Shyama Golden Art direction: Sharanya Durvasula v5.3.2 ep for my family: blood & not Its humiliating to wake up alive, fifty years later, when I couldnt have saved you. I couldnt have saved a dog. Rajinder Singh, Partition survivor

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At least 14 million people were forced into migration as they fled the ethnic cleansings and retributive genocides that consumed South Asia during the India/Pakistan Partition, which led to Indias and East and West Pakistans independence from colonial Britain. Rajinder Singh, Partition survivor
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At least 14 million people were forced into migration as they fled the ethnic cleansings and retributive genocides that consumed South Asia during the India/Pakistan Partition, which led to Indias and East and West Pakistans independence from colonial Britain.

An estimated 1 to 2 million people died during the months encompassing Partition. An estimated 75,000 to 100,000 women were abducted and raped. Partition remains one of the largest forced migrations in human history; its effects and divisions echo to this day.

For Peshawar
DECEMBER 16, 2014
Before attacking schools in Pakistan, the Taliban sends kafan, a white cloth that marks Muslim burials, as a form of psychological terror. From the moment our babies are born are we meant to lower them into the ground? To dress them in white? They send flowers before guns, thorns plucked from stem. Every year I manage to live on this earth I collect more questions than answers.

In my dreams, the children are still alive at school. In my dreams they still play.

I wish them a mundane life. Arguments with parents. Groundings. Chasing a budding love around the playground.

Iced mango slices in the hot summer. Lassi dripping from lips. Fear of being unmarried. Hatred of the family next door. Kheer at graduation. Fingers licked with mehndi.

Blisters on the back of a heel. Loneliness in a bookstore. Gold chapals. Red kurtas. Walking home, sun at their backs. Searching the street for a missing glove.

Nothing glorious. A life. Alive. I promise. I didnt know I needed to worry about them until they were gone. My uncle gifts me his earliest memory: a parking lot full of corpses.

No kafan to hide their eyes no white to return them to the ground. In all our family histories, one wrong turn & then, death. Violence not an over there but a memory lurking in our blood, waiting to rise. We know this from our nests the bad men wanting to end us. Every year we call them something new: British. Hindus. Indians. Americans. Americans.

Terrorists. The dirge, our hearts, pounds vicious, as we prepare the white linen, ready to wrap our bodies.

Partition
youre kashmiri until they burn your home. take your orchards. stake a different flag. until no one remembers the road that brings you back. until the british captains spit paki as they sip your chai, add so much foam you cant taste home. youre seraiki until your mouth fills with english. youre pakistani until your classmates ask what that is. then youre indian again. or
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