Teaching My Mother How To Give Birth -

Warsan Shire

Flipped Eye Pub

2011

38 páginas

1h 16m

ISBN-13: 9781905233298

Warsan's debut pamphlet, we witness the unearthing of a poet who finds her way through all preconceptions to strike the heart directly. Warsan Shire is a Kenyan-born Somali poet and writer who is based in London. Born in 1988, she is an artist and activist who uses her work to document narratives of journey and trauma. Warsan has read her work internationally, including recent readings in South Africa, Italy and Germany, and her poetry has been translated into Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.

Resenhas (11)

3.5 (Bom)

the woman body and the war are the same

[In Love and In War

"To my daughter I will say,
‘when the men come, set yourself on fire’."]

amei as metáforas da autora usando o corpo para descrever a guerra, para descrever a rejeição de ser imigrante. Acho que os textos "When We Last Saw Your Father", "Beauty", "Conversations About Home (at the Deportation Centre)"; "Ugly" e "In Love and In War" merecem um destaque especial.