Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
$18.52
- Paperback
38 pages
- Release Date
28 December 2011
Summary
Unearthing Echoes: Poems of Sensuality and Reclamation
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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781905233298 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1905233299 |
| Series: | Mouthmark |
| Author: | Warsan Shire |
| Publisher: | Flipped Eye Publishing Limited |
| Imprint: | Flipped Eye Publishing Limited |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 38 |
| Release Date: | 28 December 2011 |
| Weight: | 150g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 140mm x 2mm |
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About The Author
Warsan Shire
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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