If They Come for Us: Poems Mermaids & Mermen Old secrets better left buried

Old secrets better left buried are dug up

Ahead lies a terrible battle between her uncompromising faith and the intensity of her love

Key to this movement is the redefinition of online Indigenous knowledge projects as "digital bundles

whether they can be "conservative" or "liberal

and what we're really searching for when we keep scrolling

If They Come for Us: Poems Mermaids & Mermen Old secrets better left buried"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