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4.19 AVERAGE
4.19 AVERAGE
I stumbled across Warsan Shire's poem Home online a while ago, which meant that when I spotted her poetry collection in a book store I bought it on impulse. What a great impulse. What a wonderful poetry collection! The poems are hard-hitting illustrations of womanhood, migration, and trauma. There was a glossary in the back that I wish I knew of before reading the collection, but which will undoubtedly heighten the experience whenever I decide to reread this. And I definitely will. I didn't have enough time to dive as deep into the individual poems as I wanted, so a reread is on the horizon.
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
fast-paced
emotional
reflective
fast-paced
challenging
slow-paced
Warsan Shire never fails to write incantations that elicit everything. 10/10*
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
fast-paced
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
tense
fast-paced
"Mama, I made it/ out of your home/ alive, raised by/ the voices/ in my head."
I was beyond thrilled when I was able to read an advanced e-copy of Shire's new collection (many thanks to netgalley and publishers!) I had very high hopes for this book and while it didn't exactly meet my expectations entirely, I was still blown away by the poems that did draw me in with the wonderful magic of well woven prose, a strong message, and the demand for thoughts and feelings to form, be noticed, and paid attention to. It is not often that an author of any genre can approach such delicate topics in a way that works so splendidly that I easily forgot about the bits I didn't quite connect with, leaving me swooning over this collection as a whole.
Poetry is something we read and write because we are part of the human race, and Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head is a wonderful example of the passion the writer infuses into the words, and the passion of the reader as we soak them up and churn them over in our minds.
If you're looking for a beautiful collection with a strong message that will pull at your heart strings and pick at your brain until you lose yourself in thought and weave yourself between the prose this collection is one you're going to want to pick up asap!
I was beyond thrilled when I was able to read an advanced e-copy of Shire's new collection (many thanks to netgalley and publishers!) I had very high hopes for this book and while it didn't exactly meet my expectations entirely, I was still blown away by the poems that did draw me in with the wonderful magic of well woven prose, a strong message, and the demand for thoughts and feelings to form, be noticed, and paid attention to. It is not often that an author of any genre can approach such delicate topics in a way that works so splendidly that I easily forgot about the bits I didn't quite connect with, leaving me swooning over this collection as a whole.
Poetry is something we read and write because we are part of the human race, and Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head is a wonderful example of the passion the writer infuses into the words, and the passion of the reader as we soak them up and churn them over in our minds.
If you're looking for a beautiful collection with a strong message that will pull at your heart strings and pick at your brain until you lose yourself in thought and weave yourself between the prose this collection is one you're going to want to pick up asap!