"Rupture Anthem arrives fully formed and fully armed. Hera Naguib’s debut is lush, borderless, making an utterly original cartography out of expulsion and ‘sudden unbelonging’—poems that know exactly where they stand even when the ground gives way. These are love poems as much as they are poems of displacement: richly sensual, stubbornly alive, insisting that transformation is found in the breaking open." 
 

- Tishani Doshi, author of Egrets, While War and Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods

 "In novelistic narrative distilled to brilliant and heady lyric, Hera Naguib writes of a Pakistani family in Saudi Arabia—the hope and longing in such migration—and the trauma of sudden displacement by plainclothes police. Though Rupture Anthem leaps between Jeddah and Lahore, this is a story of many people in too many geographies. I had never read such a book—complex in each movement, sincere with lyric ingenuity—that made my own past and present so visible to myself, because I hadn’t yet read this book. I didn’t know there was a place in English in the United States for such experience, what I’d thought was untranslatable. Who can make another feel so deeply and personally understood, but the poet? This is a debut of the deepest offering: poetry of testimony, poetry of love-call, laded and living." 

 - Sasha Pimentel, author of For Want of Water and Insides She Swallowed

“poignantly breathes humanity into the vulnerable children and adults under siege from bombs, soldiers and their own employers”

- WBUR