Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth, Warsan Shire
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Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth

Author: Warsan Shire

Narrator: Warsan Shire

Unabridged: 0 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook

Publisher: Random House Audio

Published: 04/18/2017

Genre: Poetry - African

Synopsis

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 début pamphlet, we witness the unearthing of a poet who finds her way through all preconceptions to strike the heart directly.

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