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Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
Warsan Shire
Poems
Random House Trade Paperbacks
March 2022
On Sale: March 1, 2022
96 pages
ISBN: 0593134354
EAN: 9780593134351
Kindle: B08LZ8HQDG
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Non-Fiction Inspirational
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, 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.
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