Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

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

8 reviews

yinflower's review against another edition

emotional reflective fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Sexual assault, Violence, Sexual violence, Xenophobia, Child abuse, and War

michaelion's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

2.25

I like poems that rhyme so this one just wasn't for me :/ There's a few good moments but it didn't really feel artistic. That doesn't take away from the art though, it just feels more like she had all these heavy things on her mind weighing her down that she just had to get out there and maybe she'd feel lighter after. FIVE stars for the art FIVE stars for the title.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Abandonment, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Deportation, Racism, Rape, and War

Moderate: Blood, Child death, Classism, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, and Sexual assault

Minor: Body horror, Homophobia, Abortion, and Pedophilia

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

czidya's review against another edition

dark emotional fast-paced

3.5

This collection was a mixed bag, but where it was good it was outstanding. Shire's writing is richly symbolic as it deals with challenging topics like abuse, misogyny, and the experiences of refugees. At times I found the imagery so dense it was impenetrable- unfortunately many of the poems left no impression on me at all because I couldn't really make sense of the verbal collage. However, Shire gets the balance right more often than not, creating lush emotional poems that share a fraught but profound relationship with God and religion, as the collection's title suggests.
My favorites of the collection:

• Filial Cannibalism
• Midnight in the Foreign Food Aisle
• Bless the Camels
• Hooyo Full of Grace
• Joyride
• Backwards

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Misogyny, Rape, Murder, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Pedophilia, Death, Abandonment, Death of parent, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Child death and War

lindseyhall44's review against another edition

emotional

5.0

Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in her Head is one of my favorite poetry collections of this year ( maybe ever).
“Backwards” and “Bless this House” are two stand out poems for me, but there are plenty of incredible ones which will pull on your heart strings and never cease to amaze you.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Cancer, Violence, Sexual assault, War, Rape, Child abuse, and Racism

Moderate: Xenophobia

dusktreader's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

Beautiful and intricate. I listened to the audiobook at the same time as I read the book in print which really added to the experience—the author rewards beautifully. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, War, Abandonment, Sexual violence, Gun violence, and Violence

ashlynnoel's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Child abuse, Racism, Violence, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Miscarriage, Abortion, and Xenophobia

Minor: War

radhikag's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment

Minor: Death