Teaching my mother how to give birth /
Shire, Warsan, 1988-
Teaching my mother how to give birth / Warsan Shire. - First edition. - London : Mouthmark, 2011. - 34 p. ; 22 cm. - Mouthmark series ; no. 10 . - Mouthmark series ; no. 10. .
What your mother told you after your father left -- Your mother's first kiss -- Things we had lost in the summer -- Maymuun's mouth -- Grandfather's hands -- Bone -- Snow -- Birds -- Beauty -- The kitchen -- Fire -- When we last saw your father -- You were conceived -- Trying to swim with God -- Questions for Miriam -- Conversations about home -- Old Spice -- My foreign wife is dying and does not want to be touched -- Ugly -- Tea with our grandmothers -- In love and in war.
9781905233298 (pbk.) 1905233299 (pbk.)
English poetry--20th century.
PR6119.H518 / A6 2011
Teaching my mother how to give birth / Warsan Shire. - First edition. - London : Mouthmark, 2011. - 34 p. ; 22 cm. - Mouthmark series ; no. 10 . - Mouthmark series ; no. 10. .
What your mother told you after your father left -- Your mother's first kiss -- Things we had lost in the summer -- Maymuun's mouth -- Grandfather's hands -- Bone -- Snow -- Birds -- Beauty -- The kitchen -- Fire -- When we last saw your father -- You were conceived -- Trying to swim with God -- Questions for Miriam -- Conversations about home -- Old Spice -- My foreign wife is dying and does not want to be touched -- Ugly -- Tea with our grandmothers -- In love and in war.
9781905233298 (pbk.) 1905233299 (pbk.)
English poetry--20th century.
PR6119.H518 / A6 2011