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The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur

18 reviews

emybagshaw's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

This is my favorite poem book to date... I really loved the poem the book was named after, that was my favorite poem of all the beautiful others

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Domestic abuse, Violence, Suicide, Sexual content, Sexism, Rape, and Racism

anelarei's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Sexual harassment

dylanlouise's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective slow-paced

3.75

I mean, it's Rupi Kaur. These poems were exactly what I needed at this point, as the themes in this book include adoration, immigration, and assault. The illustrations were stunning, as always, and I appreciated the rawness. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment and Sexual assault

darbo's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

What a beautiful feminist poetry collection. I loved every moment of it, and I'll just say that I've rarely highlighted and annotated this much in a book before. Simply stunning, super empowering, and truly amazing. I can't wait to own 'Milk and Honey' and read more of Rupi Kaur's poems.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abortion, Child death, Death, Miscarriage, Murder, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, and Violence

brissieb's review against another edition

emotional slow-paced

4.0

Beautiful and powerful poetry. Rupi Kaur has a way with words that is an absolute treat to read. The comparisons and quotes out of this book forced me to highlight them. There were numerous lines of poetry that i just wanted branded onto me they were so stunning

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abortion, Child death, Death, Racism, Body shaming, Cultural appropriation, Emotional abuse, Grief, Misogyny, Rape, Self harm, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Toxic relationship

rory_john14's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Death, Grief, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Sexual violence, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Blood, Eating disorder, Medical content, Self harm, Racism, and Xenophobia

Minor: Colonisation

condensedmilk's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

3.0

This is not a masterpiece nor a good representative for the poetry genre. This work is similiar to the likes of Amanda Lovelace's work and other instapoets. Personally, I didn't like most of these poems but one brought me to tears and some sounded nice. I believe the value of Kaur's poetry comes from the fact that her experiences are very relatable and as a woman of color she can also appeal to the struggles of POC and more specifically, South Asian women—this being the reason why her poem 'broken english' spoke to me as a South Asian girl. This book however is a great gateway into the world of poetry for someone who sees poetry as foreboding and intimidating. Kaur's simple language and familiar struggles and concepts makes poetry very accessible compared to more classic poets such as Emily Dickinson. Heck, Dickinson's poetry still makes my head spin so it's reassuring that poetry is not all archaic and complicated. Something I also loved about Kaur's poetry is her honesty. She talked about the untalkable, the prime example of this being masturbation. Masturbation is such a taboo subject in feminine spheres—sometimes even amongst feminists! There's this unspoken discomfort about discussing anything sexual that excludes a partner/s and frankly I find it annoying so I'm glad Kaur is talking about these things that feel 'forbidden' to discuss openly.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Sexual assault, Rape, Sexual content, and Sexual harassment

neetis_bookshelf's review against another edition

dark emotional

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Racism

Moderate: Misogyny