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100 1 _aShire, Warsan,
_d1988-
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aBless the daughter raised by a voice in her head /
_cWarsan Shire.
260 _aLondon :
_bChatto & Windus for Penguin Random House UK,
_c2022.
300 _a71 pages ;
_c21 cm
505 2 _a[Part 1]. What doesn't kill you -- [Part 2]. This is not a love song -- [Part 3]. Are you there, God? -- [Part 4]. Testament.
520 _a"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"--
650 0 _aGirls
_vPoetry.
650 0 _aWomen
_vPoetry.
650 0 _aSomali poetry
_y21st century.
650 0 _aEnglish poetry
_y21st century.
650 0 _aRefugees
_y21st century.
_vPoetry
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