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4.19 AVERAGE
4.19 AVERAGE
challenging
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
tense
fast-paced
dark
emotional
medium-paced
challenging
dark
emotional
inspiring
reflective
sad
fast-paced
dark
hopeful
fast-paced
reflective
fast-paced
emotional
fast-paced
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
Update after reading Shire’s first collection “Teaching My Mother How To Give Birth” in Jan 2023:
I can now definitely see why many readers were disappointed with this collection because Shire ‘re-uses’ quite a few verses. Still, I feel like even though she apparently played a lot with certain fixed verses, they are accentuated in a much more raw and complementing way in this collection compared to her first one.
Original review Nov 2022:
Oh wow, I got “Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head” two hours ago as part of my surprise book subscription and I devoured it on the spot. This is the best poetry collection I read this year.
Warsan Shire is a Somali-British writer and this is her second collection. She writes about life as a refugee, about the home left behind, about growing into womanhood, about suffering from abuse and finding bodily autonomy.
This was a very emotional read — my favorite poems are:
Assimilation
Home
Bless the Bulimic
Bless Your Ugly Daughter
Backwards
The Abubakr Girls Are Different
Bless the Sharmuto
The Baby-Sitters Club
Bless This House
Bless the Blood
Buraanbur
I have to read her first collection!
I can now definitely see why many readers were disappointed with this collection because Shire ‘re-uses’ quite a few verses. Still, I feel like even though she apparently played a lot with certain fixed verses, they are accentuated in a much more raw and complementing way in this collection compared to her first one.
Original review Nov 2022:
Oh wow, I got “Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head” two hours ago as part of my surprise book subscription and I devoured it on the spot. This is the best poetry collection I read this year.
Warsan Shire is a Somali-British writer and this is her second collection. She writes about life as a refugee, about the home left behind, about growing into womanhood, about suffering from abuse and finding bodily autonomy.
This was a very emotional read — my favorite poems are:
Assimilation
Home
Bless the Bulimic
Bless Your Ugly Daughter
Backwards
The Abubakr Girls Are Different
Bless the Sharmuto
The Baby-Sitters Club
Bless This House
Bless the Blood
Buraanbur
I have to read her first collection!
fast-paced
dark
emotional
reflective
fast-paced