Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head // Poems

Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head // Poems

Warsan Shire, Juan Jose Velez Otero • Warsan Shire

ISBN-10: 0593134354 · ISBN-13: 978‑0593134351 · 2021

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Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma, and resilience from the celebrated collaborator on Beyoncé's Lemonade and Black Is King , award-winning Somali British poet Warsan Shire. Mama, I made it/ out of your home/ alive, raised by the/ voices in my head. With her first full-length poetry collection, Warsan Shire introduces us to a young girl, who, in the absence of a nurturing guide, makes her own stumbling way towards womanhood. Drawing from her own life, as well as pop culture and news headlines, Shire finds vivid, unique details in the experiences of refugees and immigrants, mothers and daughters, Black women, and teenage girls. In Shire's hands, lives spring into fullness. This is noisy life: full of music and weeping and surahs and sirens and birds. This is fragrant life: full of blood and perfume and shisha smoke and jasmine and incense. This is polychrome life: full of henna and moonlight and lipstick and turmeric and kohl. The long-awaited collection from one of our most exciting contemporary poets, this book is a blessing, an incantatory celebration of resilience and survival. Each reader will come away changed.

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