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Meu corpo minha casa by Rupi Kaur

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serendipitysbooks's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.25

Home Body is divided into four sections and explores themes like- depression and anxiety, romantic relationships, the problem with productivity, racism, sexism, misogyny, inclusive feminism, self-love and female friendships. I find Kaur’s poetry to be very accessible and this volume was no exception. Many of the poems were extremely short and some felt like fragments or motivational messages. I was able to listen to this on audio while reading the ebook, which is a great way to experience poetry. Seeing the words and hearing them simultaneously seems to increase their power. In this case the different formats had different strengths. The e book let me enjoy the formatting and Kaur’s quick sketches, while the audio, narrated by Kaur, included some bonus poems as well as a foreword by the poet which provided valuable context but which wasn’t included in the ebook.

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challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

Love Rupi! This was a quite challenging read, with lots of triggers - but I really enjoyed it, and could relate to some of the poems.

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veronicakg's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

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inspiring reflective fast-paced

3.0

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the_vegan_bookworm's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful inspiring fast-paced

5.0

I avoided reading this book for a long time, because I thought it was overhyped. But after reading this poetry, it might be one of my favourite poetry collections. Not all of the poems are great, in my opinion, and some of the pages aren't really poems so much as statements. This being said, Rupi wrote so many things that struck a chord really strongly with me and there were large parts of this book that I couldn't help but meditate on and feel moved by. And isn't that emotional connection the sign of great poetry?

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hmatt's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional hopeful

1.0

Oh boy, this was not good. My curiosity got the better of me, though, and the audiobook is an hour long.

Most of these "poems" were cringeworthy, to me. Very few read as poems, at least via audio - they feel more like bits of memoir and I think I would have been more interested if some of them had been fleshed out as essays instead of needlessly stylized (e.g. the one about her dad as a truck driver). Many of the more political/social-justicey ones just read like out-of-context buzzwordy instagram captions strung together, and I really was not compelled to believe their genuineness.

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