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

By: Warsan Shire

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Synopsis: 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. &“The beautifully crafted poems in this collection are fiercely tender gifts.&”—Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist and HungerMama, 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 96 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9780735239814
Related ISBNs:: 9780735239807
Publisher:: Penguin Canada
Date of Addition:: 03/01/22
Copyrighted By:: Warsan Shire
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Poetry, Biographies and Memoirs, Literature and Fiction
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.