God Mornings, Tiger Nights — Nuha Fariha
God Mornings, Tiger Nights is an ode to the enduring spirit of the Bengal tiger and a love letter to an immigrant's journey. This collection crosses national and international borders, gender norms and generational lines and touches on issues of Islamophobia, isolation, and xenophobia. Through it all, the tiger emerges as a symbol of resilience and fierce pride, a vessel our poems return to again and again.
God Mornings, Tiger Nights is an ode to the enduring spirit of the Bengal tiger and a love letter to an immigrant's journey. This collection crosses national and international borders, gender norms and generational lines and touches on issues of Islamophobia, isolation, and xenophobia. Through it all, the tiger emerges as a symbol of resilience and fierce pride, a vessel our poems return to again and again.
God Mornings, Tiger Nights is an ode to the enduring spirit of the Bengal tiger and a love letter to an immigrant's journey. This collection crosses national and international borders, gender norms and generational lines and touches on issues of Islamophobia, isolation, and xenophobia. Through it all, the tiger emerges as a symbol of resilience and fierce pride, a vessel our poems return to again and again.
Praise for God Mornings, Tiger Nights
”Fariha is a poet of keen observation and erudition. Her debut collection of poetry, God Mornings, Tiger Nights, is a work of memory, family, and centering the self in a world that sees difference. The many modes of the book—by turns darkly funny and invitingly powerful—make for an evocative journey through the traditions that bind: food, religion, blood, and hope. Readers will delight in rereading the work again and again.”
—Maurice Carlos Ruffin, author of The Ones Who Say They Don't Love You & We Cast A Shadow
“Nuha Fariha’s debut collection is a collision of rage and tenderness. In God Mornings, Tiger Nights, Fariha traverses the terrain of generational trauma, displacement, motherhood, and the body as a site of both resistance and betrayal. These poems are an accounting, a reckoning, a lullaby, a love letter, a call to action, and often—wondrously—all at once. God Mornings, Tiger Nights is a work of breathtaking beauty and devastating power, and Nuha Fariha is a writer to watch.”
—Jennifer S. Davis, author of We Were Angry & Our Former Lives in Art
“Nuha Fariha's debut collection God Mornings, Tiger Nights roams the spaces between the personal and familiar, belonging and exile, violence and breath. She writes "it's messy--this practice of carrying on living" and these poems thrive in that living, bringing her world to us, glowing and lyrical.”
—Ariel Francisco, author of Under Capitalism If Your Head Aches They Just Yank Off Your Head & A Sinking Ship is Still a Ship
About the Author
Nuha Fariha is a first generation queer Bangladeshi writer. Her work has appeared in RoadRunner Review, MAGMA, Thin Air, and elsewhere. Her writing has been supported by Anaphora Arts, Key West Literary Seminar, Juniper Summer Writing Institute and Mountain Words Literary Festival. She is currently earning her MFA in Creative Writing at Louisiana State University. This is her first book. You can learn more about her at nuhawrites.com.
