Warsan Shire Books
Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
By Warsan Shire
Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma, and resilience from the celebrated collaborator on Beyoncé’s Lemonade and Black Is King, award-winning Somali British poet Warsan Shire “Th...
Read MoreTeaching My Mother How to Give Birth
By Warsan Shire
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 sensual...
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