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Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head: Poems
A long-awaited collection from one of the world's most exciting contemporary poets, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head is an incantatory celebration of resilience and survival . . .
Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma, and resilience from award-winning Somali British poet Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head draws from her own life, the lives of loved ones, as well as pop culture and news headlines to share the vivid and unique details of refugees and immigrants, mothers and daughters, Black women and teenage girls.
"Warsan Shire electrifies. The beautifully crafted poems in this collection are fiercely tender gifts." -- Roxane Gay, bestselling author of Bad Feminist, Hunger, and Difficult Women