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If They Come for Us: Poems
by Fatimah Asghar
First of all, I LOVED Brown Girls, the webseries that Fatimah Asghar wrote, so I knew I had to read this! Fatimah Asghar is a Pakistani, Kashmiri, Muslim American writer and her family was forced to migrate from Kashmir during the India/Pakistan partition -- hence, this is what much of her writing is grounded in. Her poetry touches upon growing up as a Pakistani Muslim woman in America, losing her parents at a very young age, grappling questions of sexuality and race, searching for an understanding of one’s own history.
I thought it was absolutely beautiful how Asghar intertwined her own experiences with collective histories of marginalization. I especially loved the poems where Asghar played with the visual display of her poems - notably, From, Script for Child Services: A Floor Plan, Partition (August 15th, 1974), Microaggresion Bingo, and Map Home. Go read this book if you wanna know what I mean ;)
I took read this poetry collection in small chunks because each poem deserved its own time and experience. Asghar is playful, vulnerable, and most of all, powerful, in her words. I know this is one I will be coming back to for re-reads.
I thought it was absolutely beautiful how Asghar intertwined her own experiences with collective histories of marginalization. I especially loved the poems where Asghar played with the visual display of her poems - notably, From, Script for Child Services: A Floor Plan, Partition (August 15th, 1974), Microaggresion Bingo, and Map Home. Go read this book if you wanna know what I mean ;)
I took read this poetry collection in small chunks because each poem deserved its own time and experience. Asghar is playful, vulnerable, and most of all, powerful, in her words. I know this is one I will be coming back to for re-reads.