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Bendita seja a filha criada por uma voz em sua cabeça: Poemas by Laura Assis, Warsan Shire
40 reviews
czidya's review against another edition
3.5
My favorites of the collection:
- Filial Cannibalism
- Midnight in the Foreign Food Aisle
- Bless the Camels
- Hooyo Full of Grace
- Joyride
- Backwards
Graphic: Child abuse, Misogyny, Rape, Murder, and Sexual assault
Moderate: Pedophilia, Death, Abandonment, Death of parent, and Domestic abuse
Minor: Child death and War
annemaries_shelves's review against another edition
4.5
I loved how she tackled the themes of girlhood and womanhood, experiences of being a refugee and immigrant, grief, trauma, celebrations of life, death, family, and more. Each of the four sections offered something unique to the stories she was telling.
There are some really heavy subjects/topics and references in this collection, so be aware.
CW: FGM and gender violence, child abuse and death, rape, death, eating disorders, famine, war and racism, and others.
Moderate: Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Grief, Racism, Rape, Sexism, War, Body shaming, Cancer, Child abuse, Death, Violence, and Child death
lotte111's review against another edition
4.5
Moderate: Domestic abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Child abuse, Death, Misogyny, Rape, Violence, and War
booksandteatime's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: War, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Grief, Miscarriage, Racism, Child death, Gun violence, Islamophobia, Sexual assault, Colonisation, and Death
lindseyhall44's review against another edition
5.0
“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.
Graphic: Abandonment, Cancer, Violence, Sexual assault, War, Rape, Child abuse, and Racism
Moderate: Xenophobia
jayisreading's review against another edition
3.5
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.
Graphic: Child abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, and Violence
Moderate: Death, Racism, and Xenophobia
Minor: Eating disorder, Suicide, and War
2treads's review against another edition
4.0
for floods, for the flush of blood,
for men who are also wolves, even
though you could pull the tide in
by her hair, we tell everyone
we walked all over you.
–excerpt from Bless the Moon
Bless The Daughter Raised By A Voice In Her Head was my National Poetry month read and it was so much more than I expected.
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Shire has a talent for reaching towards her readers with words that are raw and that create riveting poems that have the power to move you or wreck you. Poems that invite you to parallel your own experiences, the beautiful and the traumatic.
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But there is also a movement towards healing and recognition in her poetry, an honesty that chills at times and an awareness of the weight of her family and identity. Centred throughout is girlhood, motherhood, and womanhood, propelling these poems through time and space as she chronicles loss, love, and divinity.
I mean Shire at this point, for me, can do no wrong with her poetry. There are poems that will gather you, tear you, teach you, grieve you, and yet still holds space for healing.
Minor: Domestic abuse, Violence, War, and Xenophobia
dusktreader's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Death, War, Abandonment, Sexual violence, Gun violence, and Violence
readingwithk's review against another edition
5.0
My favorite poems were: “Home”; “Backwards”; “Bless this house”
Moderate: Physical abuse, War, and Genocide
ashlynnoel's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Abandonment, Child abuse, Racism, Violence, and Sexual assault
Moderate: Miscarriage, Abortion, and Xenophobia
Minor: War