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From my blog There are times things come into your life at the perfect moment and the sun and her flowers was one of those moments. My niece bought this as my Christmas gift and I decided to start the year with it. Poetry is my simple pleasure but I hardly read any so I was grateful for this gift. I can see myself reading this one again. This was a powerful book about the stages of grief, told in 5 chapters. Wilting reminded me of a broken relationship, the beginning of the grieving process. Falling was a heart felt moving chapter about the importance of self-love. Rooting was about diversity, the sacrifice we take for our families, the legacy. Rising started to give us the promise of new love. Blooming was moments of beauty, blessings and special lessons. These are my interpretations of the moments and chapters while reading the book. I read 99% on my Kindle so reading a book felt like a new experience, going down memory lane. I never liked to dog ear books but without the highlight Kindle feature I had to, there was so much to love and have at my fingertips. I would like to share a poem from each chapter for you, hope you enjoy them. Wilting day by day i realize everything i miss about you was never there in the first place - the person i fell in love with was a mirage Falling if i am the longest relationship of my life isn't it time to nurture intimacy and love with the person i lie in bed with each night - acceptance Rooting when it came to listening my mother taught me silence if you are drowning their voice with yours how will you hear them she asked when it came to speaking she said do it with commitment every word you say is your own responsibility when it came to being she said be tender and tough at once you need to be vulnerable to live fully but rough enough to survive it all when it came to choosing she asked me to be thankful for the choices i had that she never had the privilege of making - lessons from mumma Rising the right one does not stand in your way they make space for you to step forward Blooming to hate is an easy lazy thing but to love takes strength everyone has but not all are willing to practice
I purchased this as a gift for my "worldly" granddaughter and felt the poetry would be enjoyable and uplifting to read.
I prefer to not review poetry because it's a collection of someone's inner thoughts and you shouldn't really judge that... However, I need the credit for my goodreads challenge so I will say this... If you are a woman, buy this book. If you need inspiration, buy this book. I found it to be thought provoking and very well wrote. I loved how it pushed me to dive below the surface of my thoughts and I appreciated the focus on insecurities and personal flaws.
I prefer to not review poetry because it's a collection of someone's inner thoughts and you shouldn't really judge that... However, I need the credit for my goodreads challenge so I will say this... If you are a woman, buy this book. If you need inspiration, buy this book. I found it to be thought provoking and very well wrote. I loved how it pushed me to dive below the surface of my thoughts and I appreciated the focus on insecurities and personal flaws.
consider me surprised to find i enjoyed this book despite not liking the first opinions change and people grow both as readers and as writers never judge an author by their first book judge them by their second This pretty much addressed all of my criticisms of the first book. It wasn't just about sex (though there was definitely a lot of that); it was about family and love and what it means to be an immigrant. It actually made me cry on several occasions, and while I marked only 3 poems in the first book, I marked 25 in this. It was worlds away from the messy nonsense of Milk and Honey. It felt more real and genuine. It felt less like a 13-year-old's tumblr poetry and more like an adult. The narrative poems were some of my favorites and the shorter ones had messages that weren't reiterated repeatedly. I really liked it. I'm glad the years between this publication and the previous showed some growth and honed skill.
consider me surprised to find i enjoyed this book despite not liking the first opinions change and people grow both as readers and as writers never judge an author by their first book judge them by their second This pretty much addressed all of my criticisms of the first book. It wasn't just about sex (though there was definitely a lot of that); it was about family and love and what it means to be an immigrant. It actually made me cry on several occasions, and while I marked only 3 poems in the first book, I marked 25 in this. It was worlds away from the messy nonsense of Milk and Honey. It felt more real and genuine. It felt less like a 13-year-old's tumblr poetry and more like an adult. The narrative poems were some of my favorites and the shorter ones had messages that weren't reiterated repeatedly. I really liked it. I'm glad the years between this publication and the previous showed some growth and honed skill.
consider me surprised to find i enjoyed this book despite not liking the first opinions change and people grow both as readers and as writers never judge an author by their first book judge them by their second This pretty much addressed all of my criticisms of the first book. It wasn't just about sex (though there was definitely a lot of that); it was about family and love and what it means to be an immigrant. It actually made me cry on several occasions, and while I marked only 3 poems in the first book, I marked 25 in this. It was worlds away from the messy nonsense of Milk and Honey. It felt more real and genuine. It felt less like a 13-year-old's tumblr poetry and more like an adult. The narrative poems were some of my favorites and the shorter ones had messages that weren't reiterated repeatedly. I really liked it. I'm glad the years between this publication and the previous showed some growth and honed skill.
I liked this! Rupi Kaur introduced me to a style of poetry a few years ago that I really liked, and I embarked on a rather winding journey, picking up poets along the way whose work I really enjoyed and was drawn to. Nayyirah Waheed's salt, Yrsa Daley-Ward's bone, Warsan Shire's works and Vivek Shraya's poetry sat happily among hers in my mind. As such, I'm very grateful to Kaur for introducing me to a genre that I now have a deep love and affection for. milk and honey, her first collection made a rather big impression on me, and I enjoyed her second collection a lot too. I really liked the section about immigrants -- while I'm not a person of colour I recently moved to Canada and have started the immigration process there, which is long and impossible, so hearing her poems about accents and splitting yourself across two worlds and becoming a bridge was a great comfort to me. I actually like a lot of her very spider-y artwork -- the fine lines feel very personal and a lot of the time I think they can communicate something which the text cannot. However, I once again, as in my review with milk and honey, don't like the author's jealousy at all. I despise jealousy in general and I find it exhausting. I was in a long-distance relationship for about three years so any jealousy I had just died because it had to in order for my relationship with my wife to work. Also, while I really like the title of the poem at the bottom of a page because it feels like it adds extra emphasis on the realisation of the poem, sometimes I was confused as to where the first poem ended and the next began. Not all poems were titled and some were, so often I would read the poems separately and then together, and get a completely different meaning each time. I'm sure if Kaur knew about it she wouldn't mind, because each person takes a different meaning from any part of any poem and formatting isn't as important as feeling. BUT as a reader, I like to read poetry really effortlessly in order to best feel the emotions or connect with the text, and that whole title / no-title thing just took me out of the text while I tried to guess if she'd written one poem or two. The collection grew on me the more I read it, it was an easy read but the problems I had with it are problems I've had with her previous work so that feels... almost a little discouraging. Hopefully, this collection will grow more and more fond and affectionate in my memory.
This book should be rated. It is fine for an adult woman. The first few pages and cover poems are benign and seem like it might be a good book about a young woman's growth. That being said, it is absolutely NOT appropriate for anyone still in middle or high school. I post this only because it is easily mistaken for something that would appeal to younger girls (the cover, the idea). It is frustrating that you have to read through even a book now because there is no rating or warning. There is a lot of very sexual content in here that parents need to be aware of so they can decide for themselves. Shame on me for not screening something from the general shelf at Walmart.
So much hype around this collection of poems. I think it was a good collection but it didn't live up to the hype for me. Some pieces of poetry were very unique and inspirational, while others just fell flat and read like thoughts on a page - stream of consciousness rather than captivating, insightful poetry and masterfully crafted language. Not to say that it was bad, but it wasn't as amazing as I had hoped based on all the buzz! It was good for some easy poetry.