Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth - Shire, Warsan

Clean, tight, unmarked; absolute minimal wear; appears unread; 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. In this book, Warsan's debut pamphlet, we witness the unearthing of a poet who finds her way through all preconceptions to strike the heart directly.
Near Fine
Paperback
flipped eye publishing limited
2011
U.K.