Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head: Poems Arthurian and urgent calls for Black

and urgent calls for Black girls to step into their power

Drawing on a wealth of untapped archival materials and the reports of generations of family members--mayors

#1 New York Times bestselling author of Five Feet Apart and She Gets the Girl

and her younger sister flee her father's explosive temper and seek refuge at her mother's ancestral home in Memphis

gunshots echo and men amass in the doorways of derelict garages

Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head: Poems Arthurian and urgent calls for BlackPoems of migration, womanhood, trauma, and resilience from the celebrated collaborator on Beyonc's Lemonade and Black Is King, award winning Somali British poet Warsan Shire "The beautifully crafted poems in this collection are fiercely tender gifts." Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist "Warsan Shire is our ultimate modern poet. . . . This is our James Baldwin." The New York Times Culture Desk LONGLISTED FOR THE GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE ONE OF THE BEST