Reviews tagging 'War'

Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head by Warsan Shire

40 reviews

hs22's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

A raw, visceral poetry collection.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Suicide, Mental illness, Rape, Racism, and War

readingwithcoffee's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

3.75

I would read other reviews because I didn’t fully understand or follow some of the poems so I will reread another time at a better head space. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Miscarriage, Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, War, and Death of parent

satanne's review against another edition

dark informative reflective sad

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Xenophobia, Death of parent, Racism, Hate crime, Emotional abuse, Eating disorder, Pregnancy, Violence, War, Suicide, Miscarriage, Medical trauma, Death, Abortion, Rape, and Sexual assault

misty_muskrat's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Misogyny, Rape, War, and Sexual assault

litletters's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Racism, War, Eating disorder, Violence, Rape, Xenophobia, and Sexual violence

rayannotates's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: War, Xenophobia, Misogyny, Violence, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, and Mental illness

elyssajoh's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, War, Child abuse, and Physical abuse

dafni's review against another edition

emotional sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, War, Xenophobia, Racism, and Child abuse

krys_kilz's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective fast-paced

4.5

Julia Alvarez's review of this collection sums up my feelings: "This fierce and compelling book of poems should come with a warning label: These poems will break your heart."

My favorite poems in the collection were: Assimilation, Home, Midnight in the Foreign Food Aisle, Backwards, Hooyo Isn’t Home, and Bless the Gun Tossed into a River. 

"Dear Uncle, is everything you love foreign
or are you foreign to everything you love?"

- from Midnight in the Foreign Food Aisle

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Rape, and Child abuse

Moderate: Death, War, and Racism

Minor: Suicide and Eating disorder

americattt's review

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.25

“You only leave home when home won’t let you stay…No one puts their children on a boat unless the water is safer than the land. No one would choose days and nights in the stomach of a truck, unless the miles traveled meant something more than journey.” 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and War