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Bendita seja a filha criada por uma voz em sua cabeça: Poemas by Laura Assis, Warsan Shire
29 reviews
savvylit's review against another edition
4.0
"I want to go home, but home is the mouth of a shark. Home is the barrel of a gun. No one would leave home unless home chased you to the shore. No one would leave home until home is a voice in your ear saying—leave, run, now. I don’t know what I’ve become."
Graphic: Death of parent, Racism, Sexual assault, and Domestic abuse
Moderate: Sexism and Colonisation
dafni's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Rape, War, Xenophobia, Racism, and Child abuse
krys_kilz's review against another edition
4.5
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
Graphic: Sexual assault, Rape, and Child abuse
Moderate: Death, War, and Racism
Minor: Suicide and Eating disorder
serendipitysbooks's review against another edition
5.0
calling men to worship.” Highly recommended, especially if you are looking for an accessible relevant contemporary collection.
Graphic: War, Racism, Rape, Child abuse, and Death
jaiari12's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Cancer, Racism, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Rape, Misogyny, Violence, Child abuse, Death, Murder, Child death, Body horror, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Terminal illness, and War
Minor: Blood, Miscarriage, Abortion, Cursing, and Pregnancy
madanxiety's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Child abuse, Rape, and Sexual violence
Moderate: Racism, War, and Xenophobia
Minor: Eating disorder
melhara's review against another edition
3.5
As with most poetry collections, there were some poems that stood out to me more than others, including Assimilation; Drowning in Dawson's Creek; My Father, The Astronaut; and, Bless This House.
Here's a passage from Assimilation:
The refugee's heart often grows
an outer layer. An assimilation.
It cocoons the organ. Those unable to grow the extra skin
die within the first six months in a host country.
As much as I like listening to poetry via audiobook or reading it via ebook, I did have some difficulty navigating between the glossary at the end of the book and the poems (as there are many Somali words included in the poems).
Moderate: Physical abuse, Racism, and Death
brianareads's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Violence, Racism, and Sexual violence
Minor: Murder and Torture
rheagoveas's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Sexual violence
Moderate: Racism and Sexism
faduma's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Religious bigotry, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Classism, Gun violence, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Torture, Trafficking, Colonisation, Confinement, Cultural appropriation, Racism, Rape, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Violence, War, Body shaming, Child abuse, Gore, Grief, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, and Medical trauma