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Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur

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thevanessa's review against another edition

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dark medium-paced

1.0

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challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

3.5

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emotional reflective fast-paced

2.5

I don't normally read poetry, because I'd rather people just came out and said what they meant, rather than dancing around with millions of metaphors, so I didn't think I would like this much. Turns out I was right, but for the opposite reason - I wish Rupi Kaur had said LESS in plain language, had used MORE lyrical language, and written essays rather than poems.

i didn't like
the structure
of the poems
reading them
hurt
my brain

And while the artwork was cute, and much better than anything I've ever drawn, it wasn't enough to elevate the poems out of banality. I am sorry for the things Kaur has suffered in her life, and appreciate her attempts to relay it in a universal way that might be relatable and helpful to others. I just didn't really get anything out of this.

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bolte_books's review against another edition

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challenging emotional hopeful inspiring sad medium-paced

2.0

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challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective

3.5

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dark emotional sad fast-paced

4.0

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challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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reflective sad fast-paced

2.75

Rupi Kaur is probably the emblem of IG / Tumblr poetry. The line art is simple simple, the poems strike as trite aphorisms or even a random sentence that Kaur just decided to cut up into a 5-6 line poem. So some are genuinely BAD bad. But a few others... it's a hit straight to the id. It helps that she writes about such universal female experiences here: childhood trauma, falling in love / lust, break-ups, getting over someone and rediscovering yourself. Everyone's had the experience, for example, of breaking up with someone and feeling like they'd had a total personality change. And so even with the bad poems, there's this sense of recognition to see that subject - something so anxious and mundane and feminine it's rarely been represented in poetry - on the page. Your heart just goes, "Oh, it's me," with a thud. Kaur's persona and voice is "wise" and "compassionate" and "dreamy" in the same way a tarot card reader is. And just as self-conscious. We're both in on the scam, but as long as we don't look at it directly, it can be effective.

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dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

2.0

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emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

I really enjoyed this collection of poems. It was raw and full of powerful comparisons, seemingly going through the pain of different relationship/sexuality-related stages. It had an emphasis on feminism and it was empowering and healing, bringing positivity and a healthy perspective on how to appreciate ourselves and how to support the ones around.

The style flows and it is natural, it just clicked with me, especially the verses. The illustrations are really emphasising the text. Overall, a really enjoyable and highly recommended read that I might come back to. I will check out more of this author's books.

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