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Bendita seja a filha criada por uma voz em sua cabeça: Poemas by Laura Assis, Warsan Shire

30 reviews

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

mold_munchr's review against another edition

challenging dark fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexism, Death of parent, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Xenophobia

frankieclc's review against another edition

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence and Sexual assault

Moderate: Child abuse

savvylit's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

Warsan Shire has an unparalleled ability to write poems that are beautiful and damning at the same time. Whether she is addressing the ripple effects of intergenerational trauma or celebrating existence, Shire expresses so much in so few words. Her poems about the immigrant experience in this collection ultimately resonate the most. They resonate even moreso than her still-excellent observations on femininity and family dynamics; though the latter topics are those for which Shire is more well known. Anyone who feels that they don't understand why someone would ever leave their country of origin ought to read her poem "Home." I'll leave you with a brief excerpt from that so you can witness Shire's powerful words for yourself:

"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."

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Racism, Sexual assault, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Sexism and Colonisation

julie0032's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual violence 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

jaiari12's review against another edition

dark emotional fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

kirstym25's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Rape, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Death, Grief, Cancer, and War

faduma's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

jdamae11's review against another edition

dark reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault and Suicide