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Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head by Warsan Shire
10 reviews
ukponge's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Child death, Domestic abuse, Rape, Sexual violence, Suicide, Violence, Xenophobia, and War
hs22's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Mental illness, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicide, and War
satanne's review against another edition
3.75
Graphic: Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Miscarriage, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Violence, Xenophobia, Medical trauma, Abortion, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and War
krys_kilz's review against another edition
4.5
My favorite poems in the collection were: Assimilation, Home, Midnight in the Foreign Food Aisle, Backwards, Hooyo Isn’t Home, and Bless the Gun Tossed into a River.
"Dear Uncle, is everything you love foreign
or are you foreign to everything you love?"
- from Midnight in the Foreign Food Aisle
Graphic: Child abuse, Rape, and Sexual assault
Moderate: Death, Racism, and War
Minor: Eating disorder and Suicide
jdamae11's review against another edition
4.5
Moderate: Sexual assault and Suicide
inamerata's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Child abuse, Misogyny, and Rape
Moderate: Death, Racism, Sexual violence, Violence, Xenophobia, Grief, and War
Minor: Cancer, Eating disorder, Suicide, and Cannibalism
venetiana's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Death, Eating disorder, Hate crime, Racism, Rape, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Body shaming, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Police brutality, Medical content, Trafficking, Grief, Abortion, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, War, and Deportation
sharonus's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Body horror, Body shaming, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Physical abuse, Sexism, Violence, Blood, Grief, and War
Minor: Suicide, Abortion, and Suicide attempt
jayisreading's review against another edition
3.5
That said, something about these poems didn’t quite land the same way that her earlier poems did. The poems didn’t read as cohesive as a whole and, even within their sections, seemed a little scattered.
What I do love about Shire’s writing is how multisensorial her poems are, making for a unique experience any time you read anything by her. This was certainly the case in this collection, even if the poems didn’t have the same impact as her previous works did.
Graphic: Child abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, and Violence
Moderate: Death, Racism, and Xenophobia
Minor: Eating disorder, Suicide, and War
ayotomi's review against another edition
3.75
Minor: Eating disorder, Suicide, and Violence