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

ISBN: 0593134354

Author: Shire, Warsan

Condition: New

Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma, and resilience from the celebrated collaborator on Beyoncés Lemonade and Black Is King, award-winning Somali British poet Warsan ShireThe beautifully crafted poems in this collection are fiercely tender gifts.-Roxane Gay, author of Bad FeministWarsan Shire is our ultimate modern poet. . . . This is our James Baldwin.-The New York Times Culture DeskLONGLISTED FOR THE GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Vanity Fair, The Guardian, Publishers WeeklyMama, 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 way toward 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 Shires 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.