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4.19 AVERAGE
4.19 AVERAGE
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
"forgive me please, famine back home."
It took me eight months to get through this because there were too many lines and entire poems that genuinely made me burst into tears. Tears for my own hooyo, for her hooyo, for myself. Like, Miss Shire really said it's fun for the whole family because after reading Lullaby For Father, I picked up the phone to contact my dad so he could hear it and maybe even cry for himself too.
Also, shoutout to the years I spent in Somalia myself; the amount of references and subtleties that wouldn't resonate with me otherwise is finally making me grateful for it.
It took me eight months to get through this because there were too many lines and entire poems that genuinely made me burst into tears. Tears for my own hooyo, for her hooyo, for myself. Like, Miss Shire really said it's fun for the whole family because after reading Lullaby For Father, I picked up the phone to contact my dad so he could hear it and maybe even cry for himself too.
Also, shoutout to the years I spent in Somalia myself; the amount of references and subtleties that wouldn't resonate with me otherwise is finally making me grateful for it.
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
fast-paced
emotional
reflective
fast-paced
dark
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
Warsan Shire is brilliant brilliant *and also* "full poetry collection with a unifying theme" is a genre that I have always had a ton of trouble appreciating and connecting with :( I should probably just stick to reading individual poems one by one. Five stars for the book I do not doubt, two stars for the reader.
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
“I’ll rewrite this whole life and this time there’ll be so much love, you won’t be able to see beyond it.”
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Enjoyed this collection from Warsaw Shire that explores the intersection of forced migration, fractured faith, and inhabiting a woman’s body. Shire crafts poems that center the exercise of agency, the inheritance of family and country, and how a person finds home in the world.
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Enjoyed this collection from Warsaw Shire that explores the intersection of forced migration, fractured faith, and inhabiting a woman’s body. Shire crafts poems that center the exercise of agency, the inheritance of family and country, and how a person finds home in the world.
dark
emotional
inspiring
reflective
sad
fast-paced
emotional
reflective
tense
medium-paced
The only word I can think of to describe my experience with this book is visceral. These poems are so violent but also beautiful? At times I felt like I'd been punched in the gut but then it was followed up by a tender moment shared between women in the book and I just thought, wow how relevant this is to some of my own experiences as a woman. Another sort of contradicting thought I had about this was that this collection of poetry is very specific, but the emotions it evoked in me felt universal.
I cannot wait to read more from Warsan Shire.
I cannot wait to read more from Warsan Shire.