Warsan Shire

Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

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Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma, and resilience from the celebrated collaborator on Beyoncé’s Lemonade and Black Is King, award-winning Somali British poet Warsan Shire
“The beautifully crafted poems in this collection are fiercely tender gifts.”—Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist
“Shire is the real thing—fresh, cutting, indisputably alive.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times
ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022—Vogue, BuzzFeed, Esquire, Bustle, Essence, The Week, Lit Hub
Mama, I made it / out of your home / alive, raised by / the voices / in my head.
With her first full-length poetry collection, Warsan Shire introduces us to a young girl, who, in the absence of a nurturing guide, makes her own way toward womanhood. Drawing from her own life, as well as pop culture and news headlines, Shire finds vivid,…
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    I don’t recognize my own children
    they speak and dream in the wrong language
    as much as I understand
    it may as well be the language of birds
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    Diets of excess, deep allegiance
    to the adage “If you don’t laugh, you’ll cry.”
    And they laugh so hard they weep.
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    I can write the poem and make it disappear.
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