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Haus Feuer Körper: Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head (zweisprachige Ausgabe Englisch-Deutsch) by Warsan Shire
27 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
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
dusktreader's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Death, War, Abandonment, Sexual violence, Gun violence, and Violence
radhikag's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Abandonment
Minor: Death