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Title	:	Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
Author	:	Warsan Shire
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 37 pages
Published	:	December 29th 2011 by Flipped Eye
Categories	:	Poetry. Feminism. Nonfiction

Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth

Warsan Shire

Paperback | Pages: 37 pages

Rating: 4.31 | 13047 Users | 1123 Reviews

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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; reclaiming the more nuanced truths of earlier times - as in Tayeb Salih's work - and translating to the realm of lyric the work of the likes of Nawal El Saadawi. As Rumi said, "Love will find its way through all languages on its own".

In 'teaching my mother how to give birth', 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.

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Original Title:	Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
ISBN:	1905233299 (ISBN13: 9781905233298)
Edition Language:	English

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Warsan Shire is one of the poets I was hoping to get to during National Poetry Month and I received two collections through interlibrary loan.Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth was published first (2011) in the UK, by the English lottery funded mouthmark series. Our Men Do Not Belong To Us is actually a chapbook from the Seven New Generation African Poets: A Chapbook boxed set edited by Chris Abani and Kwami Dawes (2014) Most of the poems in the chapbook are in this collection, so just try for

The poem Ugly is beautiful, definitely a favorite.

Last night in bed I swear I thought my body was on fire.What a lovely and eloquent little book. The tone, subject matter, and emotion in this one really stands out among the numerous modern poetry collections.

Because its World Refugee Day, and Ive been reading Shires poem, Home, over and over, I decided it was time to read this one too. Beautiful and horrifying. Glad I picked up this short volume.

I have been savouring this short book of poems for weeks. It's hard to know how to review this collection as it feels so personal. My experience with the words so intimate. I often picked up this book and read aloud the contents within. And the stillness I found in the quiet of my own voice reading these beautiful words... I simply can't explain it. Truth. Beauty. Love. three and a half stars Your daughter is ugly.She knows loss intimately,carries whole cities in her belly..... Your daughters

He was sitting in the hospital parking lotin a borrowed car, counting the windowsof the building, guessing which onewas glowing with his mistake. Poetry is difficult, almost impossible to review. It's actually tempting to not review this collection of poems, to not rate it.But I will...The poetry I read is a bit of a mixed bag. I have collections by Rabbie Burns, Edgar Allen Poe, Banjo Patterson and e.e.cummings. I like what I like but there is poetry which I know is great that really doesn't

3.5 starsThis book was very informative, eye-opening, and interesting. I think I came out of it very shocked because I read books all about Kenya this past semester for school, so catching references about the country and Islam was very neat for me. A lot of these poems are super dark, so trigger warning for domestic violence and rape/sexual assault, but the haunting quality to them made them so addicting and tragic. I ended up reading some of these out loud to my (conservative) mom as she was