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Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

Poems

By: Warsan Shire

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Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

Poems

By: Warsan Shire

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 “Shire is the real thing—fresh, cutting, indisputably alive.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times 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 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 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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0593134362

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9780593134368

Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

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By: Warsan Shire

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Her Blue Body

By: Warsan Shire

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Her Blue Body

By: Warsan Shire

Through her role as London's first Young Poet Laureate, Warsan Shire turned her eye to the city, interrogating the capital and its continuing transformation, even while lending voice to its oft unheard or under-represented communities and spaces. Collecting work authored during Shire's tenure, 'Her Blue Body' stands as testament and witness, negotiating the complexities of heritage, cultural sensitivity, sensuality, trauma and womanhood, framed and ordered by a sequence of memorial poems, focused through the lens of Shire's intimate and unflinching vision.

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Flipped Eye Publishing Limited

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1905233485

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9781905233489

Teaching My Mother how to Give Birth

By: Warsan Shire

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Teaching My Mother how to Give Birth

By: Warsan Shire

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Mouthmark

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1905233299

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9781905233298

Penguin Modern Poets 3

Your Family, Your Body

By: Malika Booker,Sharon Olds,Warsan Shire

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Your Family, Your Body

By: Malika Booker,Sharon Olds,Warsan Shire

The latest volume in Penguin Modern Poets series - moving and unflinchingly honest poems from three different cultures about experiences of the female body, the family, sexual politics and conflict Your Family, Your Body features the work of Malika Booker, the Guyanese-British writer and performer behind London- and Chicago-based collective Malika's Kitchen; the Pulitzer Prize-winning Sharon Olds, one of America's most brilliant, beloved and candid voices; and Warsan Shire, the award-winning poet and first ever Young Poetry Laureate of London who also lent her words to Beyoncé's visual album Lemonade. Inspired by Penguin's enormously successful '60s series of the same name, the Penguin Modern Poets are succinct, collectible, lovingly-assembled guides to the richness and diversity of contemporary poetry, from the UK, America and beyond. Every volume brings together representative selections from the work of three poets now writing, allowing the seasoned poetry fan and the curious reader alike to encounter our most exciting new voices.

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129

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Penguin UK

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0141984023

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9780141984025

Seven New Generation African Poets

A Chapbook boxed set

By: Tjawangwa Dema,Clifton Gachagua,Tsitsi Ella Jaji,Nick Makoha,Ladan Osman,Warsan Shire,Len Verwey

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Seven New Generation African Poets

A Chapbook boxed set

By: Tjawangwa Dema,Clifton Gachagua,Tsitsi Ella Jaji,Nick Makoha,Ladan Osman,Warsan Shire,Len Verwey

This eight-piece boxed set, an African Poetry Book Fund (APBF) project, features the work of seven African poets, with an introduction by Kwame Dawes, APBF series editor, and Chris Abani. The boxed set is an annual project starting in 2014 to ensure the publication of seven chapbooks by African poets through participating publishers. Publication is made possible through Slapering Hol Press, in association with APBF and the literary journal Prairie Schooner, with support from The Poetry Foundation. The chapbook contains: • Mandible by TJ Dema • The Cartographer of Water by Clifton Gachagua • Carnaval by Tsitsi Jaji • The Second Republic by Nick Makoha • Ordinary Heaven by Ladan Osman • Our Men Do Not Belong To Us by Wasan Shire • Otherwise Everything Goes On by Len Verwey

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1940646588

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Book's by Warsan Shire

Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

Her Blue Body

Her Blue Body

Teaching My Mother how to Give Birth

Teaching My Mother how to Give Birth

Penguin Modern Poets 3

Penguin Modern Poets 3

Seven New Generation African Poets

Seven New Generation African Poets

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