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Haus Feuer Körper: Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head (zweisprachige Ausgabe Englisch-Deutsch) by Warsan Shire
32 reviews
satanne's review against another edition
3.75
Graphic: Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Miscarriage, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Violence, Xenophobia, Medical trauma, Abortion, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and War
mold_munchr's review against another edition
4.0
Moderate: Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Xenophobia, and Death of parent
litletters's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Child death, Eating disorder, Racism, Rape, Sexual violence, Violence, Xenophobia, and War
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: Domestic abuse, Racism, Sexual assault, and Death of parent
Moderate: Sexism and Colonisation
dafni's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Child abuse, Racism, Rape, Xenophobia, and War
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: Child abuse, Rape, and Sexual assault
Moderate: Death, Racism, and War
Minor: Eating disorder and Suicide
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: Child abuse, Death, Racism, Rape, and War
jaiari12's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Violence, Murder, and War
Minor: Cursing, Miscarriage, Blood, Abortion, and Pregnancy
madanxiety's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Child abuse, Rape, and Sexual violence
Moderate: Racism, Xenophobia, and War
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: Death, Physical abuse, and Racism