hooplahore 's review for:

Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head by Warsan Shire

5.0

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These poems ripped my heart out. It is incredible that women so far from you can live such similar experiences. There are many words and titles I had to google to understand the magnitude of and what they represented but others that I lived with her that tore at me to relive them. I saw myself, families, parents reflected so truly in her words. Though many experiences of immigrants, refugees and women seem universal as told through her poems the ones uniquely to Warsan are written in a way that is a window into her life. I loved these poems even though some times I had to put them down and cry through some of them before being able to continue.