Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

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

10 reviews

ukponge's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Domestic abuse, Xenophobia, War, Suicide, Sexual violence, Child death, and Violence

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

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

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

jdamae11's review against another edition

dark reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault and Suicide

inamerata's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad

5.0

Absolutely stunning. The imagery, the word choice, the pacing, the emotions, the craft -- I lack the words to describe how good this is. This book deals in quite heavy topics, but if you are able, I definitely recommend it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Rape, and Child abuse

Moderate: Violence, Racism, Sexual violence, Xenophobia, Death, Grief, and War

Minor: Cancer, Cannibalism, Eating disorder, and Suicide

venetiana's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Rape, Blood, Racism, Murder, Eating disorder, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Confinement, Cancer, Abortion, War, Child death, Violence, Vomit, Trafficking, Torture, Terminal illness, Suicide, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Body shaming, Alcohol, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual harassment, Fire/Fire injury, Police brutality, Physical abuse, Murder, Misogyny, Miscarriage, Medical content, Mental illness, Infidelity, Grief, Domestic abuse, Deportation, Child abuse, and Abandonment

sharonus's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Blood, Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Grief, Death, Physical abuse, Genocide, Domestic abuse, Sexism, Violence, and War

Minor: Suicide, Abortion, and Suicide attempt

jayisreading's review

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.5

I was excited when I heard that Warsan Shire was publishing a new collection of poems. I enjoyed Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth and the themes that she covered. Not surprisingly, the themes that came up in her new collection were just as thought-provoking and haunting, exploring girlhood/womanhood, borders (both personal and political), faith, among others.

That said, something about these poems didn’t quite land the same way that her earlier poems did. The poems didn’t read as cohesive as a whole and, even within their sections, seemed a little scattered.

What I do love about Shire’s writing is how multisensorial her poems are, making for a unique experience any time you read anything by her. This was certainly the case in this collection, even if the poems didn’t have the same impact as her previous works did.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, and Violence

Moderate: Death, Racism, and Xenophobia

Minor: Eating disorder, Suicide, and War

ayotomi's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective fast-paced

3.75

I’m a fan of Warsan Shire and generally love her poems but I found the poems redundant. Some of them have appeared in other forms in her previous work. While I enjoyed her new collection, it felt too similar to her previous work and I was expecting newer poems/perspectives.  

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Content Warnings

Minor: Suicide, Eating disorder, and Violence