Teaching My Mother How To Give Birth

by Warsan Shire

Published Nov. 8, 2011 by Flipped Eye Publishing Limited.

ISBN:: 978-1-905233-29-8

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Annette C. Boehm reviewed Teaching My Mother How To Give Birth by Warsan Shire

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5 stars

Really, really good! This chapbook is full of poems that are beautiful and gut-wrenching, and they could hardly be more topical: these poems witness what it is to be both a woman and a refugee.

Matthew Royal reviewed Teaching My Mother How To Give Birth by Warsan Shire

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4 stars

"I want to make love, but my hair smells of war and running and running. I want to lay down, but these countries are like uncles who touch you when you're young and asleep."

Intense erotic imagery transitions into the intense loss she has for her old life, old country, and family. She makes you feel her trauma like it's fresh, and how it ages with her.