Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth by Warsan Shire

Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth

Warsan Shire

43 pages first pub 2011 (editions) user-added

nonfiction feminism poetry dark emotional reflective fast-paced
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What elevates 'teaching my mother how to give birth', what gives the poems their disturbing brilliance, is Warsan Shire's ability to give simple, beautiful eloquence to the veiled world where sensuality lives in the dominant narrative of Islam; re...

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4.25
based on 5,184 reviews

Moods

emotional: 85%

reflective: 69%

dark: 61%

sad: 49%

challenging: 35%

tense: 23%

inspiring: 12%

informative: 8%

hopeful: 5%

mysterious: 5%

adventurous: 1%


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26% of readers chose medium
10% of readers chose slow
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