Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth by Warsan Shire

Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth

Warsan Shire

nonfiction feminism poetry emotional medium-paced

38 pages | first published 2011

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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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