Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head Material:Paperback Growing up

Growing up

provocative poetic meditations on identity and self-assertion stretching from Paul Laurence Dunbar to Amiri Baraka to Lucille Clifton and beyond

When Darius told Angel he loved her

traumatic and terrible and miraculous

then starts to form sentences at two months old

Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head Material:Paperback Growing upPoems of migration, womanhood, trauma, and resilience from the celebrated collaborator on Beyoncs Lemonade and Black Is King, award winning Somali British poet Warsan Shire. Mama, I made it out of your home alive, raised by the voices in my head. With her first full length poetry collection, Warsan Shire introduces us to a young girl, who, in the absence of a nurturing guide, makes her own stumbling way towards womanhood. Drawing from her own life, as