Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

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Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma and resilience from the award-winning Somali British poet Warsan Shire, celebrated collaborator on Beyoncé's Lemonade and Black Is King.

With her first full-length poetry collection, Warsan Shire introduces us to a girl who, in the absence of a nurturing guide, makes her own stumbling way toward 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. These are noisy lives, full of music and weeping and surahs. These are fragrant lives, full of blood and perfume and jasmine. These are polychrome lives, full of moonlight and turmeric and kohl.

The long-awaited collection from one of our most exciting contemporary poets is a blessing, an incantatory celebration of survival. Every reader will come away changed.

© Warsan Shire 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

GENRE
Fiction
NARRATOR
WS
Warsan Shire
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
01:07
hr min
RELEASED
2022
10 March
PUBLISHER
Random House
SIZE
67.9
MB