by rupi kaur
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 ...
I think I would have loved to read this book when I was a teenager! It would have probably helped me to learn a thing or two way faster than I did. However, since I'm reading it at 32, almost everything in this book seemed obvious or redundant, its lessons were things I've known since high school so...
This is a pretty popular book right now but it just made me feel a bit gross and weird after reading it. I thought it was pretty horribly written. The poetry didn't flow well, it felt more like text messages than anything. The pictures were super creepy as well (but I suppose that's the point). Just...
January 28-30milk and honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. It is 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 h...
This was just everything. Rupi Kaur gives everything in this book. There is beauty and ugliness, sweetness and sadness, pain and healing. This book makes you feel happy, sad, angry, empowered, and thoughtful all at once. I can see myself in these pages. I can see people I know in these pages. I am r...
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