Home Body
Ratings66
Average rating3.7
Thanks to my friend Erin for loaning me this book!Standard disclaimer about poetry: I don't know anything about it and am rating based on my response.I liked these! Not as much as I did [b:The Sun and Her Flowers 35606560 The Sun and Her Flowers Rupi Kaur https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1499791446l/35606560.SY75.jpg 57044162], but still. I thought the poems dealing with themes of trust, belief, self-compassion, and acceptance were my favorites (list of page numbers at end). There are several that speak to Kaur's experience as an immigrant, particularly as a child. While I don't relate to the immigrant experience, a lot of them felt familial to growing up very poor. I related to those aspects, both the experiences of them and the sensitivies and anxieties the experiences leave you with. Several I really did not quite get / they did not speak to me at all. That's okay. I bumped on a few. That's okay too!I thought the introduction(?) of poems on productivity and anxiety around success or putting out an image of success/competency was really interesting. I don't remember those from Sun & Her Flowers. I appreciated the inclusion and liked these, particularly the ones around kind of acting a certain way or working your way to happiness (like p105).Favorites (page numbers): 22, 27, 35, 42, 65, 97, 105, 119, 120, 153, 156.
Not usually a poetry person but I was just craving some beautiful quotes and this a scratched that itch for me.
stale prose sentences devoid of any meaning because they are either too juvenile or trying too hard to be ~edgy. no idea is developed beyond the very first thought and instead is repeated in slightly varying ways making no point at all.
While I may have read Rupi Kaur's ‘poetry' around social media for a while now, it's my first time reading an entire collection. I personally felt they were more of intimate thoughts penned down than actual poetry... but then again, is it possible to confine a free form of expression to certain expectations?
That aside, I'm a bit conflicted rating this poetry collection as although there were some ‘poems' that deeply resonated with me, some others were a bit harder to digest as I wasn't able to connect as much.
This is such a nice read and I loved each poem. The poems are classified into 4 groups mind, heat, rest, and awake. There are a lot of things covered by these pomes. There are poems that make us feel how everyone have the same sort of problems, productivity issue, self-doubt, asking the opinion of others, how our mind and body feels like different entity.
The poems cover varied topics - self-love, betrayal, love, family, refugee, work, anxiety, self-pleasure, time, environment. The book is so captivating and I was feeling each poem.
I loved this the most,
“I will never have
this version of me again
let me slow down
and be with her -always evolving”
You will surely feel that something was felt by most of the people around. I am sure to recommend it to people around me.
Thank you for such a wonderful book with simple but making us feel things through the words in your poem.
rupi kaur is one of my favorite poetry authors, so it's not surprising that i loved this book. Iive loved all of her books so far. i just read it in one sitting which took roughly 30-45 minutes. i thouroughly enjoyed it! i tabbed and highlighted my favorite ones (which were a lot of them). i definitely recommend if you like poetry.
*read all the poetry project
Kaur's third publication! I'm glad she still going strong.
Rupi Kaur's books are best read as a story rather than as individual poems. Home Body doesn't shy away from anything that's living in her heart or her mind at this point in her life. It is shocking, emotional, and captivating.