Teaching my mother how to give birth / Warsan Shire.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shire, Warsan, 1988-

Series:

Mouthmark series ; no. 10.

Mouthmark series ; no. 10

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Somali poetry--21st century.

Somali poetry.

English poetry--21st century.

English poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

34 pages ; 22 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Mouthmark series, 2011.

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

9781905233298

1905233299

OCLC:

829114126

Publisher Number:

99970130686