Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth by Warsan Shire

Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth

Warsan Shire

37 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction feminism poetry dark emotional reflective fast-paced
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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; re...

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Moods

emotional 85%
reflective 69%
dark 60%
sad 48%
challenging 33%
tense 21%
inspiring 13%
informative 8%
mysterious 6%
hopeful 5%

Pace

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medium 27%
slow 10%

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