Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth This powerful

This powerful

This book is a stunning ABC of African culture

and the wonder of words that can make the world right

There’s no point in trying

Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth This powerfulWhat 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; reclaiming the more nuanced truths of earlier times as in Tayeb Salih's work and translating to the realm of lyric the work of the likes of Nawal El Saadawi. As Rumi said, "Love will find its way through all