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.
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.
Each reader will come away changed.
The long-awaited collection from one of our most exciting contemporary poets, this book is a blessing, an incantatory celebration of resilience and survival.
This is polychrome life: full of henna and moonlight and lipstick and turmeric and kohl.
This is fragrant life: full of blood and perfume and shisha smoke and jasmine and incense.
This is noisy life: full of music and weeping and surahs and sirens and birds.
In Shire\'s hands, lives spring into fullness.
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.
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.
Mama, I made it/out of your home/alive, Raised by the/voices in my head.
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.
Each reader will come away changed.
The long-awaited collection from one of our most exciting contemporary poets, this book is a blessing, an incantatory celebration of resilience and survival.
This is polychrome life: full of henna and moonlight and lipstick and turmeric and kohl.
This is fragrant life: full of blood and perfume and shisha smoke and jasmine and incense.
This is noisy life: full of music and weeping and surahs and sirens and birds.
In Shire\'s hands, lives spring into fullness.
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.
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.
Mama, I made it/out of your home/alive, Raised by the/voices in my head.
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
