Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth (Mouthmark): 10

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My favourite poems are Things We Lost in the Summer, Birds, Ugly and Old Spice, but the greatest impact have the short pieces of prose labelled Conversations about Home (at the Deportation Center). Each piece reads like a protest, an outcry, like a way to give the thousands of immigrants and refugees a voice to tell their story. In our current political climate many people see refugees as a (terrorism) threat and refuse to give them a chance, but Shire's words cut so deep that you can’t turn a deaf ear to them. Through Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth the empowerment of women becomes like a burning tempest kindled up by the rawness of Warsan Shire’s words. The poems are also about reality, the horrors that some people have to face in a word driven by war. They carry with them such human depth, none more so than the poem In Love and In War. Shire does not compromise. The idea of setting oneself on fire is tangible to suicide. The men are coming, the soldiers and sons of war, so let us end it before they can touch us. This can be read as an act by a woman burning herself to avoid the objectifying effects that are coming her way. Historically speaking, the women of an invaded country often become the greatest victims. We all know what humans can do when in a blood frenzy. By committing suicide these daughters can avoid the worse of such possible crimes. But the act of setting oneself on fire can be read in a different way, a much brighter way. Namun dengan suaranya, ia berusaha untuk bisa “melahirkan” orang-orang hebat, yang diharapnya bisa lebih relevan dengan zaman kini. Sad people have the gift of time, while the world dizzies everyone else; they remain stagnant, their bodies refusing to follow pace with the universe. With these kind of people everything aches for too long, everything moves without rush, wounds are always wet.”

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Pernah mendengar selentingan “Perempuan yang mengenakan hijab atau mungkin rajin salat, adalah mereka yang suci”? Coba baca puisi satu ini. Mungkin kamu nggak percaya dengan apa yang ditulis Warsan Shire. 5. “Conversations About Home” Mother’s Day is often depicted as a joyous celebration; images of doting daughters and caring mothers wearing matching silk pyjamas and drinking coffee in bed often visualise the event. Warsan Shire dalam bukunya, memaparkan lebih banyak isu nan kompleks, serta fenomena-fenomena di sekitar yang saya pikir nggak eksis, tapi ternyata ada. of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth by Warsan ShireShire speaks in here not only of girls that lost their virginity and lied about it, or that were forced into female genital mutilation, but that were raped and violated, and deemed unworthy just the same. These are their tales, and they all have value, and there is always something to learn, something to understand. Ya, sebagian orang menganggap bahwa keperawanan adalah hal yang sudah selayak dan sepantasnya dijaga. Namun ada juga yang bilang bahwa keperawanan seseorang sebenarnya bergantung dengan nilai-nilai yang dipegang teguh. Today is a good day. Today is a wonderful day - any day that starts out like this is. I found a house full of words. Bold, fearless, silky, abrasive, wounding words. Warsan Shire is a house full of words. Words that don't cuddle you, words that envelope you. There's a deep sense of melancholy to her words and quite a lot of her poems contain explicit content - which I have absolutely no qualms about. If you don't do bold and abrasive, then this probably isn't for you. But personally, I love the way the words burn, sometimes sweet and silky is just too much of that - sweet and silky. I think that's the beauty of poetry, the creeping subtlety of it's power is you never know which line will sink or float you, make or mar you. You never know which line you'll latch unto and cling to for dear life. I've always thought that poetry emphasizes the delicacy of words and maximizes it's full utility. Where books might be pretentious, extravagant or redundant with fine literary sounding words, I've always thought, in a way, poetry thrives on it. But that's not to say it needs it, simply there's love to be found even in those that prove tedious. Maybe I feel this way because I knew poetry before I knew stories and novels. Some poems in this are more of 3's than 4's but on average, I rated this a 4 because it was a really good collection. Ini menjadi pengingat bagi saya bahwa segala kemungkinan bisa terjadi di dalam hidup. We cannot control other people’s live, but we have full ownership of ours. That’s exactly what Warsan Shire wants us to do. Be the voice.

Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth - Penguin Random House

Saya nggak menemukan satu pun puisi yang sama dengan judul utama buku ini. Namun, setelah membaca semua puisinya, saya diarahkan pada satu interpretasi pribadi. One of my favorite poems in this collection is called "Beauty". In it, Warsan describes how her older sisters "soaps between her legs" and "stole / the neighbour's husband, burnt his name into her skin." She recounts her sister's "shameful" behaviour, since her sister loves sex and finding pleasure where it offers itself to her. I like the poem because it feels so real. I can imagine Warsan's relationship to her sister. I see the two of them in their flat when reading this poem. I know how Warsan must've felt as a younger sister. Excited, confused, envious, judgmental. It's 4 a.m. and she winks at me, bending over the sink, Warsan Shire juga berusaha membuka mata para pembaca bahwa untuk bisa mengubah stigma, kepercayaan, atau kebudayaan yang telah melekat dan mendarah daging, adalah sebuah perjuangan panjang. Poetry is difficult, almost impossible to review. It's actually tempting to not review this collection of poems, to not rate it.Warsan Shire is one of the poets I was hoping to get to during National Poetry Month and I received two collections through interlibrary loan.