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hannahwines 's review for:
Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
by Warsan Shire
I usually take my time with poetry collections, but I read this one in a single sitting. It’s the kind of book that both expands the mind’s understanding while simultaneously meeting it where it is, especially with ideas of womanhood in a global and ever-changing context. LOVED this collection and the experience of reading through it.
One of my favorite excerpts, which both explains emotions I can only imagine and makes my own unimaginable emotions totally explainable:
“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.
I don’t know where I’m going. Where I came from is disappearing. My beauty is not beauty here. […] I am the sin of memory and the absence of memory.”
One of my favorite excerpts, which both explains emotions I can only imagine and makes my own unimaginable emotions totally explainable:
“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.
I don’t know where I’m going. Where I came from is disappearing. My beauty is not beauty here. […] I am the sin of memory and the absence of memory.”