traces the long history of intellectual thought produced by Black Lesbian writers
Growing up
traumatic and terrible and miraculous
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
Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head Material:Paperback traces the long history ofPoems 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