Description
This searing debut poetry collection traces a young woman’s passage through girlhood, womanhood, daughterhood, and motherhood while confronting the legacies of displacement, violence, and inherited pain. Drawing on personal experience, family histories, and the brutal immediacy of headlines, the poems move between intimate confession and collective witness, illuminating the complicated bonds between mothers and daughters and the struggle to claim one’s own body and voice. Yet alongside grief and trauma, the collection makes room for tenderness, resilience, desire, and self-invention. Fierce, lyrical, and deeply empathetic, it transforms poetry into both testimony and a source of survival.
Available Editions
paperback
Penguin Random House
Published Jan 1, 2022
81 pages
ISBN: 9781473577640
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Details
First Published
2022
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head by Warsan Shire.