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Daughter of the Mountains: poems of heartbreak & homecoming
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Expected 7 Jul 26A 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
at the edge of an edge
is an edge. at that edge
is a cliff. beyond that cliff
is me.
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.
at the edge of an edge
is an edge. at that edge
is a cliff. beyond that cliff
is me.
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.
- GenresPoetry
192 pages, Paperback
Expected publication July 7, 2026
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About the author
Fatimah Asghar
15 books619 followersPoet, screenwriter, educator, and performer Fatimah Asghar is a Pakistani, Kashmiri, Muslim American writer. She is the author of the poetry collection If They Should Come for Us and the chapbook After. She is also the writer and co-creator of the Emmy-nominated Brown Girls, a web series that highlights friendships between women of color. Her work has been featured on news outlets such as PBS, NPR, Time, Teen Vogue, Huffington Post, and others.
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March 4, 2026
I love Asghar’s collections of poetry, and this one is just as good as her others! This one carries themes of
family, loss, Pakistan laws and conflicts, love, grief, and personifies the mountains throughout the poetry. I love how she includes details that help the reader understand the poem or theme by including historical context and facts. Some of the language in the collection would be hard to use in my classroom, but I definitely found some poems I would want to include. Asghar’s use of blacking out words throughout the collection makes for a unique analysis point as well!
family, loss, Pakistan laws and conflicts, love, grief, and personifies the mountains throughout the poetry. I love how she includes details that help the reader understand the poem or theme by including historical context and facts. Some of the language in the collection would be hard to use in my classroom, but I definitely found some poems I would want to include. Asghar’s use of blacking out words throughout the collection makes for a unique analysis point as well!
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