The Sun and Her Flowers
Ratings187
Average rating3.7
DNF'ed at 25% Sadly this one didn't grab my attention at all. I think some of the “poems” were the same as in her first book??
I really enjoyed this book, almost every poem was relatable and even helped me understand my feelings better. Definitely recommend.
I am not a great lover of poetry and am usually stumped by it. Historically if poetry isn't a haiku or in iambic pentameter I am a little too dumb to read it, because I don't know how to make it sound in my inner voice. Don't ask me to read it out loud. I am self-conscious of this blind spot. I tried reading The Waste Lands last year and was totally bumfuzzled by it.
Anyway, I saw this in a little free library yesterday. Chewed through it rapidly. It is not surprising that I did not relate to all of these, but some of them really dropped into a hollow place within and bounced around, echoing all the while.
I am usually pretty open to vulnerability in my writing but these are pretty raw and I am a little too self-conscious to type the ones that meant the most to me here. But I will obscure them in a bit list of the page numbers for those that spoke to me so loudly:
19, 22, 25, 26, 30-33, 35, 36, 47, 52, 53.
63, 67, 79, 87, 97, 103, 105, 109, 122.
160, 185.
205, 207, 229, 240.
I also really liked the closing poem (?) on an unnumbered grey page towards the back that starts, “and then there are days...”
This is the first poetry book I've read & idk why I didn't read them before, maybe my prefrontal cortex finally matured enough to understand it lol.
A few tears were shed as there were some poems I definitely could relate to.
I swear I read this book before! Why is this so damn similar to her first work? Apart from the two pieces, everything else felt repetitive and bland. I am glad I didn't pay for this.
No tengo mucho más que decir sobre este libro, que el hecho de estar escrito por una mujer, para todas las mujeres, sin excepción. Poemas de una diosa, sobre diosas, para diosas.
even worse than her other book. i don't even know where to begin. this is bad. this isn't poetry. I don't want to be mean, but this was painful to read.
despite knowingthey won't be here for longthey still choose to livetheir brightest lives- sunflowers
Even tho the book has some amazing poems, some of them felt like meh...
Sometimes I wanted the poems to be longer, because ir felt like a waste for a one-sentence-long one to occupy a whole page.
Overall it was a good read, some of the poems really hit close to home.
Milk and honey was better.
A majority of the poems I either didn't like that much or wanted to skip. A few that I liked it and stood out to me.
Maybe reading Milk and honey made my expectations high, I kinda felt I was reading the same poems from her previous book, so that why it bores me and took me a long time to finish.
Siento que esté libro me enseñó más cosas que el anterior. Pero al mismo tiempo a los dos los sentí como uno solo.
That was really powerful, inspiring and honest. I love her poetry and the themes she is covering, but the parts about obsessive love and romanticizing it felt a bit overdone and wrong to me. But, generally, I'm not a fan of the “my only love till death” and “I live only for you” tropes, so that's just not my cup of tea. Everything else, especially the parts about motherhood and self-love, was amazing and on point. Loved it!
This collection of poetry deals with some relevant and important topics and themes including: grief, mental health, feminism, self-abandonment, honouring ones culture and roots and empowering oneself. The poet Rupi Kaur, whose poems are usually simplistic in tone is also responsible for encouraging a new generation of readers to try out poetry which is really encouraging and positive. However, I agree with the general consensus that Rupi Kaur's collections tend to stray on the side of over simplistic. Both of her collections are extremely similar in style, tone and structure and are both separated into four separate themes. I didn't enjoy that the collection wasn't particularly literary and that unfortunately for me the poetry wasn't very profound or original. The poetry towards the end became very repetitive and similar and I felt much of the content of the collection came from the urge to write about what is popular rather than a heartfelt collection. Unfortunately, for that reason the highest I can rate this collection is 3.5 stars.
“to healyou have toget to the rootof the woundand kiss it all the way up”
Une belle façon de démarrer l'année en lecture avec ce nouveau livre de Rupi Kaur qui a de nouveau résonné profondément en moi. De la poésie magnifique, touchante, qui ravive des blessures pour aider à les surmonter, ramène le sourire quand elle ne fait pas réfléchir en profondeur. Des messages d'une douceur et d'une humanité splendides.
I seriously loved every single thing about this book. I got all of my friends hooked to her words. I can't wait to see what else she has in store.