A Warning to the House That Holds Me: 19 (flap pamphlet series)

A Warning to the House That Holds Me builds on the milestones and mythology of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo to perform a deeply personal act of reclaiming power. Fully aware of the political significance of rejecting the dominant Amina weaves together a series of poems that pay homage to her home country and lineage - exploring displacement dual nationality and Somali history. Drawing on a long tradition of Somali storytelling these poems achieve the complex balance of being as conversational as they are crafted. Brimming in them is a sense of longing for escape yet accepting the inescapable reality of generational trauma and the ever present grip of a mothers embrace.