Milk and Honey

Pick up this collection of poetry and read anywhere. You'll likely find a sentiment that is familiar and hits close to your heart. And that is the power of a collection such as this one: Kaur is a collector of difficult emotions that she bottles up in colorful glass, and presents in an easy to swallow manner.

As far as poems go, these are not all that amazing. The verse is often clunky and relies more on the revelation of the emotion than on the words themselves. But Kaur clearly has her fans, likely because of how she presents these sentiments. I doubt time will be gracious to the poetry of Kaur anymore than it has been to the spiritualist pioneer poets of the 1800s, but time will tell.

This “review” is part of a series in which I quickly scribble a few of the thoughts I had regarding a book I read in the first half of 2021 during a time when I let my reviews get very behind.