Milk and Honey
Ratings428
Average rating3.4
Good one liners do not make poetry. it's inherently lazy and childish. if you like pretty sounding things that you and every ofher teenager or child could write, you'd love this!
I'm trying out poetry. This collection had more than 15 people queueing for it at the library, which is great!
However, it was not the collection for me. I did like a few of the poems, mostly from the last part: the healing.
''i want to apologize to all the women i have called pretty before i've called them intelligent or brave i am sorry i made it sound as though something as simple as what you're born with is the most you have to be proud of when your spirit has crushed mountains from now on i will say things like you are resilient or you are extraordinary not because i don't think you're pretty but because you are so much more than that''
I want to a start the review with this quote, beacuse I think it sets perfectly the tone of this book.
Kaur's poetry is meaningful, simple -yet so beautiful- and above it all, it is loud. Yes, so loud, you have to listen to what she says. Because she won't shut up, and I love it.
I hope her voice is NEVER silenced beacuse I need her to keep writing stuff like this.
I feel like I know her so well now... ‘cause she is not going to sugar coat ANYTHING. She talks about rape, body image, loving yourself, being confident, love, learning to move on, body hair, periods, and I love it.
The poetry is accompanied by gorgeous illustrations that make the experience of reading this book even more engaging. The writing style is quite simple, but that doesn't mean it isn't whimsical, and well, poetical. The simplicity of this book made me feel more, I don't know... familiar, you can say? Made me feel closer to Rupi and to her experiences, and sometimes I felt them like my own, and I loved that.
So, If you didn't already guess it, I really loved this book, and is now very deep in my heart.
Please if you have the opportunity to pick this book, don't give it a second thought!
"father. you always call to say nothing in particular. you ask what i'm doing or where i am and when the silence stretches like a lifetime between us i scramble to find questions to keep the conversation going. i come from the same aching blood. from the same bone so desperate for attention i collapse in on myself. i am your daughter. i know the small talk is the only way you know how to tell me you love me. cause it is the only way i know how to tell you."
I wish I enjoyed this as much as everybody else, however I found this collection quite underwhelming. I might not be a modern poetry kind of person, who knows. There were a handful of poems I found beautifully written and moving (like the one I quoted), but the rest were simply not compelling enough for me.
I'd give this a 3.5 in actuality. I think there are a lot of great insights from Kaur's personal experiences and the experiences of many women, but her style didn't resonate with me as much as I'd hoped. Poetry is a personal experience and can cause more disparity than, say, a novel.
i love rupi kaur's poetry a lot and i loved how she split the book in 4 parts, each telling something about a different subject. the poems were really good.
These words are powerful, they are her words, they are yours, they are mine. This book broke me, and built me.. I angered and I praised... It's perfection between the covers, and if you do not read this book you are doing yourself a disservice. <3 Rupi Kaur is a woman to be heard.
I read this book in one sitting and I loved it, the writing is perfect and really makes you feel something, I'll definitely read this a couple more times and highlight so many parts
This collection found me when I was a teenager, and while I've reread it a few times since and wholeheartedly understand the criticism I still view it with rose tinted glasses as it had helped me out a lot during that age.