If They Come For Us
Autor Fatimah Asgharen Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 feb 2019
Ne-a atras atenția If They Come For Us prin modul în care Fatimah Asghar, o voce consacrată deja în spațiul digital ca scenaristă a seriei nominalizate la Emmy, Brown Girls, își fundamentează discursul poetic pe o cercetare intimă a identității și a memoriei colective. Subliniem faptul că acest volum de debut nu este doar o colecție de poezie, ci o investigație asupra modului în care violența istorică, precum Partition-ul Indiei, se răsfrânge asupra corpului și psihicului unei femei pakistaneze-musulmane în America de astăzi. Remarcăm utilizarea unor forme experimentale care permit autoarei să navigheze între experiența de orfană și complexitatea apartenenței la o comunitate marginalizată. Această lucrare reprezintă o alternativă necesară la volume precum Brown Girl Chromatography de Anuradha Bhowmik pentru cursurile de literatură contemporană a diasporei, având avantajul unei structuri fragmentare care oglindește procesul de vindecare după traumă. În timp ce Anuradha Bhowmik se concentrează pe cronologia maturizării, Fatimah Asghar alege să „împletească” istoria cu prezentul, oferind o perspectivă mai brută asupra intersecționalității dintre religie, sexualitate și rasă. Poziționăm acest volum ca fundament pentru opera ulterioară a autoarei; temele fragmentării și ale granițelor sunt reluate și expandate în romanul său When We Were Sisters. Dacă în The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 3 autoarea acționa ca o voce colectivă pentru comunitatea musulmană queer, în If They Come For Us ea își rafinează stilul personal, oferind un ton vulnerabil dar ferm, esențial pentru înțelegerea peisajului liric actual.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1472154622
Pagini: 128
Dimensiuni: 122 x 196 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.13 kg
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Corsair
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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De ce să citești această carte
Recomandăm acest volum cititorilor interesați de poezia contemporană care abordează teme politice prin lentilă personală. If They Come For Us oferă o perspectivă rară asupra identității pakistaneze în diaspora, câștigând prin onestitatea cu care tratează doliul și supraviețuirea. Este o lectură despre reziliență, ideală pentru cei care au apreciat forța lirică a unor autori precum Warsan Shire.
Despre autor
Fatimah Asghar este o poetă, scenaristă și regizoare americană de origine pakistaneză, recunoscută pentru explorarea identităților marginalizate. A câștigat notorietate internațională ca și co-creatoare a seriei web Brown Girls, care i-a adus o nominalizare la premiile Emmy. Opera sa este profund ancorată în experiența proprie de orfană și în istoria violentă a Partition-ului, teme pe care le-a dezvoltat ulterior în debutul său în proză, When We Were Sisters, finalist la National Book Award. Fatimah Asghar este considerată una dintre cele mai influente voci ale noii generații de scriitori musulmani din Statele Unite.
Descriere
'Fatimah Asghar's debut collection brought me to tears many times over. It is urgent, compelling and filled with fragments of history that have changed the face of the world. Its exploration of queerness, grief, Muslim identity, partition and being a woman of colour in a white supremacist world make this the most essential collection of poems you'll read this year' Nikesh Shukla, editor of The Good Immigrant, author of The One Who Wrote Destiny
Poet and co-creator of the Emmy-nominated web series Brown Girls captures her experience as a Pakistani Muslim woman in contemporary America, while exploring identity, violence, and healing.
an aunt teaches me how to tell
an edible flower
from a poisonous one.
just in case, I hear her say, just in case.
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.
'A debut poetry collection showcasing both a fierce and tender new voice' Booklist
Recenzii
Fatimah Asghar writes my heart
What an outstanding collection of poetry . . . [I] will be thinking about these poems for a long time to come
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. Asghar's work isn't simply some of the most innovative work I've 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. I'm not sure this nation is deserving of such a marvelous sensual and sensory book, but I know we needed this. We so needed this.
If They Come For Us is a beautiful book of poems that, as powerfully and deeply as any book I've 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.
With breathtaking intelligence and care, Fatimah Asghar writes enduring poems that from varied angles investigate the histories and resonances of the Partition .... Part of the strength and vulnerability of this work is rooted in what I'm 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, lament, challenging language even as they are led by it... But my chest bursts most with Asghar's 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 you're 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.
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.
This summer, her 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.
These poems are simultaneously elegant and playful, balancing the two elements with such formal innovation. The poet invents new forms and updates classic ones.
In her debut poetry collection, Asghar explores the experience of being a Pakistani Muslim woman in America today. These poems are powerful and personal.
In this awe-inspiring debut, Asghar, writer of the Emmy-nominated web series "Brown Girls," explores the painful, sometimes psychologically debilitating journey of establishing her identity as a queer brown woman within the confines of white America...Honest, personal, and intimate without being insular or myopic, Asghar's collection reveals a sense of strength and hope found in identity and cultural history: "Our names this country's wood/ for the fire my people my people/ the long years we've survived the long/ years yet to come."
The stark poems in Fatimah Asghar's collection If They Come For Us examine conflicts around the globe, from the repressive violence of the Taliban to the echoes of the Partition of India across the decades and the restrictive immigration policies enacted by the Trump administration. Asghar's precise use of language and talent with imagery creates an unnerving contrast between the beauty of the form and the horrors these poems depict.
Orphaned as a child and marginalized in America, Asghar captures the plight of alienation on a personal and political scale...With If They Come For Us Asghar joins a rich history of Partition literature. Poets in the diaspora have mined the relationship between the violent remapping of the subcontinent with the instability of South Asian identity, language, and citizenship in their work... a firm declaration of loyalty and love to Asghar's community. "my country is made / in my people's image / if they come for you they / come for me too," she writes. It is a paean to her family-blood and not-who she turns to steadily, out of the past and into a shared future.