Saint Serotonin
Poems of Love and Obsession
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Saint Serotonin
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Warsan Shire
"Ya Allah if it / will keep my heart soft, please break / my heart everyday."
A woman meets a man. She carries, as we all do, the weight of her childhood, the story of her parents, the body she was born into. Endorphins race in her— their love is fated. But what comes after the miracle of love?
Warsan Shire is beloved for gently holding the tender parts of a diasporic generation: poems that truly see—and cry with and rage for—those scattered by war. Poems that peek into the hidden conversations between women that helped them survive. In Saint Serotonin, the world narrows to a single, ferocious flame of obsession. With an anatomist’s eye, Shire paints an uncompromising and complicated portrait of a woman in love, from the jitters of infatuation to the ecstatic wager of losing oneself in another: "The only side effect: / nothing will ever be enough."
These are poems of reckless intoxication, tuned to desire’s contradictory faces: devotion, abasement, tenderness, addiction. Sensual, subversive, perfume-scented yet horror-tinged, Saint Serotonin ensnares us in its intimate derangements, rich with indelible language and searing physicality: "Trust me, he loves me. / Have mercy, he loves me." As our narrator fights her way back to herself, who will she be when she emerges?
Featuring brand-new poems alongside some of Shire’s most beloved pieces (including "For Women Who Are Difficult to Love") this collection is at once a promise and a warning, an invocation and an excavation of what it is to love and be loved.
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