If They Come for Us

“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