5/24/2023 0 Comments Home warsan shireA dying grandfather who remembers the names of every man he has ever killed will still wrench out your heart when he wants to be buried at home. Shire’s poems are provocative, often biting, but maintain a gentleness that carries the poem through to the end. Her poems, and lines from her poems, have been shared and retweeted thousands of times, most recently a line from “Home,” which is most closely associated with the wave of refugees drowning in the Mediterranean: “No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark.” Actor Benedict Cumberbatch and Caitlin Moran, for instance, recited lines from “Home” in a 2015 Save the Children appeal. Yes, I answered, echoing the many others who respond to Shire’s work on social media and across the Internet, and waited for the punch line that was as devastating as it is beautiful. He tells you that no man can live up to the one in your head ![]() ![]() ![]() I first knew of Warsan Shire’s poetry from an audio collection online: Warsan Versus Melancholy (The Seven States of Being Lonely) the first poem I fell in love with from that collection was “For Women who are Difficult to Love.” ![]() Who names her book How to Teach your Mother to Give Birth is nobody’s little sister.
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