num_pages: 96
description: Poems of migration womanhood trauma and resilience from the celebrated collaborator on Beyonc's Lemonade and Black Is King award-winning Somali British poet Warsan Shire.Mama I made itout of your home alive raised by thevoices 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 stumbling way towards womanhood. Drawing from her own life and the lives of loved ones as well as pop culture and news headlines Shire finds vivid unique details in the experiences of refugees and immigrants mothers and daughters Black women and teenage girls. In Shire's hands lives spring into fullness. This is noisy life: full of music and weeping and surahs and sirens and birds. This is fragrant life: full of blood and perfume and shisha smoke and jasmine and incense. This is polychrome life: full of henna and moonlight and lipstick and turmeric and kohl.The long-awaited collection from one of our most exciting contemporary poets this book is a blessing an incantatory celebration of resilience and survival. Each reader will come away changed.
language: English
title: Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head: Poems
publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks