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Her debut, bestselling pamphlet, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth, was published in 2011. Translation by Liljuan Gonzalez: (password: dance) Original Text: 'Home' by Warsan Shire no one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark you only run for the border when you see the whole city running as well your neighbors running faster than you breath bloody in their throats the boy you went to school with who kissed you dizzy behind. The long-awaited collection from one of our most exciting contemporary poets is a blessing, an incantatory celebration of survival. Warsan Shire (FRSL) is a Somali-British writer and poet.

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These are polychrome lives, full of moonlight and turmeric and kohl. These are fragrant lives, full of blood and perfume and jasmine. Warsan Shire’s poems are direct, but they are works of such delicate construction and layered insight that one quickly realizes what seems direct is necessarily wholly indirect. These are noisy lives, full of music and weeping and surahs. Our Men Do Not Belong to Us is the opening noise of a poet who has already gained a significant amount of praise for her poetry. The short film is now available to stream. 2 The poem Home by Kenyan-born Somali poet Warsan Shire points out the various motivations that fuel the need for. Drawing from her own life and the lives of loved ones, as well as pop culture and news headlines, Shire finds vivid, unique details in the experiences of refugees and immigrants, mothers and daughters, Black women and teenage girls. Warsan Shire teamed up with Tessa Thompson to show what its like to be a teen girl in the Dadaab Refugee Camp. While on the one hand, the category of ‘refugee’ is de-historicized, and seen without the context of post-colonial responsibility, 1 the signs of threat that accompany those bodies are shaped by multiple histories. With her first full-length poetry collection, Warsan Shire introduces us to a girl who, in the absence of a nurturing guide, makes her own stumbling way toward womanhood. Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma and resilience from the award-winning Somali British poet Warsan Shire, celebrated collaborator on Beyoncé's Lemonade and Black Is King.

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