milk and honey
'milk and honey' is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. About the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity. It is split into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose. Deals with a different pain. Heals a different heartache. 'milk and honey' takes...
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'milk and honey' is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. About the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity. It is split into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose. Deals with a different pain. Heals a different heartache. 'milk and honey' takes readers through a journey of the most bitter moments in life and finds sweetness in them because there is sweetness everywhere if you are just willing to look.
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9781502784278 (1502784270)
ASIN: 1502784270
Publish date: 2014-11-04
Publisher: CreateSpace
Pages no: 194
Edition language: English
Poetry at it's finest. Seriously. I read this today while sitting in the waiting room at the dentist and let me tell you, it's super difficult having all the feels about words and things, when you have to keep a straight face. Not all of the poems touched me. Not all of them did something for me...
I like Kaur's poetry when I see it on tumblr because it's usually paired with something else that gives it meaning. On their own the poems feel shallow. I can see young teens liking it if they're encountering these ideas for the first time. They're just not for me.
Sometimes the creator is as interesting to me as the creation. So it is with Rupi Kaur’s Milk and Honey. This collection was originally self-published in 2014 by a then 22 year old Rupi Kaur, a Canadian poet, writer, illustrator and performer of Punjabi descent. At 22, I was lucky to find my way hom...
Didn't take long for me to get sick of the line breaks. Felt like I was reading a collection of tumblr quotes trying really hard to turn a simple thought into something deep. Perhaps I just don't get poetry and this is what poetry is now -- small simple thoughts that happen to cross the mind, but th...
she was a rosein the hands of thosewho had no intentionof keeping her7% This collection of poems was not what I expected. It hit me in the feels, I needed some time to collect my thoughts and gasp for air. I also didn't expect how raw that first section would be. I'm still recovering.I read this in ...
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