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©2026
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xi, 164 pages ; 21 cm
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"A One World Trade Paperback Original"--Title page verso
[verily, i release]
A tender, searching collection of poems that breaks open notions of faith to ask how a daughter, alienated from kin, can find love and a home in the world, from the award-winning author of If They Come for Us and When We Were Sisters. Exiled from ancestral homelands, how can one find a place for themself in the world? In this stunning sophomore collection, the acclaimed poet Fatimah Asghar unweaves residual grief to reckon with their relationship to Allah, long-estranged but deeply loved kin, the landscape of their ancestors, and love itself. In meditative poems, Daughter of the Mountains grapples with multiple facets of fulfillment, betrayal, love, loss, and longing, illustrating how place, lineage, and environment inform the practice of spirituality and vice versa. With wisps of humor, imagery that is as beautiful as it is startling, and powerfully disruptive formal invention, this is an intimately lyrical and explosive collection
part i. daughter of [the return]. [at the edge of an edge] ; [in the time before borders] ; [armor] ; [someone was born] ; [when i ask the mountains] ; [daughter of] ; [when my parents died] ; [museum] ; [the women in my family] ; [from] ; [nostalgia;] ; [my father was not the eldest] ; [other life] ; [apus] ; [archive] ; [after thirty years] ; [the truth is] ; [he made a movie. it was a flop.] ; [to the god of the city] ; [when I say:] ; [madness] ; [village boy] ; [alhamdulillah, i am belonged]
part ii. daughter of [hope] ; [somewhere, somewhere, someone] ; [i don't know what will kill us first: the race war or what we've done to this earth] ; [the ocean's tryna fuck] ; [smell is the last memory to go] ; [orange] ; [poor you, you orphan] ; [in the country where hugs are banned] ; [i won't forget] ; [he was chaotic] ; [on the plane] ; [i can't fight] ; [february in lahore] ; [they're in their lord of the flies bag] ; [practice]
part iii. daughter of [border]. [when we thought the world would end] ; [everyone grieves at the walk light] ; [nazar] ; [here we are] ; [on the eve of ramadan] ; [point towards the beauty] ; [when the army comes, the men disappear] ; [ya latif, ya latif, ya latif] ; [freedom song] ; [still life, iInterrupted by border]
part iv. daughter of [pain]. [i thought] ; [no one can take my anger] ; [fennel seed] ; [madness] ; [opposite of midas] ; [other life] ; [when you told me about her] ; [cursed] ; [& what a miracle] ; [pagamento]
part v. daughter of [dirt]. [alhamdulillah i am belonged] ; [what existed before?] ; [what was rewritten?] ; [after, what reamined?] ; [al-haq] ; [i love them still] ; [beloved] ; [of course] ; [tracing] ; [you] ; [i risked]