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3.71 AVERAGE
3.71 AVERAGE
Profound and moving in most cases, but kinda bumper stickery in others. Quite a few of these poems pack a visceral punch and the drawings really compliment the stories and emotions the author's portraying. Really engaging and full of insight...and I really enjoyed the free text/stream of consciousness style.
Meh….
As someone who’s been wanting to get into poetry for a while, this book was a decent place to start - I liked some of the poems in this collection and I appreciate and agree with some of the messages that she’s trying to convey, however the majority of the poems made me cringe at times and sometimes it just felt like the author was writing random sentences and spacing them out to make it seem more lyrical instead of actual poetry.
Example:
Normal sentence: “ the cat sat on the dark green ugly mat”
Normal sentence combined with the format used in milk and honey:
the
cat sat
on the dark
green ugly
mat
The book on the whole seemed a bit pretentious to me.
At least the pictures inside it are pretty!
As someone who’s been wanting to get into poetry for a while, this book was a decent place to start - I liked some of the poems in this collection and I appreciate and agree with some of the messages that she’s trying to convey, however the majority of the poems made me cringe at times and sometimes it just felt like the author was writing random sentences and spacing them out to make it seem more lyrical instead of actual poetry.
Example:
Normal sentence: “ the cat sat on the dark green ugly mat”
Normal sentence combined with the format used in milk and honey:
the
cat sat
on the dark
green ugly
mat
The book on the whole seemed a bit pretentious to me.
At least the pictures inside it are pretty!
I'm not going to rate this book, because I don't think everything has to be judged, especially others' self-expression. I would rather that everyone feel they can put their writing, art, expression, feelings into the world, especially when they share their lived experiences (in this case, relationship abuse, experiences from being a woman, etc).
Personally, I didn't connect deeply with this poetry like I thought I would. Rather than lingering on each poem, I found I flipped through them fairly quickly, not finding around only ten poems that were meaningful for me. I am not at a in life to be identifying with her pain, and I think the poems depended on resonance with reader's experiences, rather than moving readers to feel an experience they haven't had. I think for others though it could be powerful, healing, or cathartic, and I am glad that for many people it has been. I am also glad that a young person's poetry is being read -- is exploding, is saying "young people have something to say, women have something to say, poetry can be valuable just because people like it and identify with it, not because it's "high art" or cryptic or obscure or makes some kind of artistic statement." Poetry is valuable because it connects with people and they want to read it. If Rupi Kaur does that for many people, then good for her.
Personally, I didn't connect deeply with this poetry like I thought I would. Rather than lingering on each poem, I found I flipped through them fairly quickly, not finding around only ten poems that were meaningful for me. I am not at a in life to be identifying with her pain, and I think the poems depended on resonance with reader's experiences, rather than moving readers to feel an experience they haven't had. I think for others though it could be powerful, healing, or cathartic, and I am glad that for many people it has been. I am also glad that a young person's poetry is being read -- is exploding, is saying "young people have something to say, women have something to say, poetry can be valuable just because people like it and identify with it, not because it's "high art" or cryptic or obscure or makes some kind of artistic statement." Poetry is valuable because it connects with people and they want to read it. If Rupi Kaur does that for many people, then good for her.
Very underwhelming in every aspect. It’s hard for me to say that it isn’t poetry, because it is poetic and the parameters of poetry are... loose, I guess? But the ideas and themes were the most underwhelming part. The hyper-focus on sex is just reinforcing a toxic concept that sex is the highest form of intimacy, in my opinion - but that being a clash of opinion, it isn’t fit to review based on that, I feel. So the two stars comes from the fact that it just wasn’t very interesting to me, or good. I personally didn’t like hardly any of the content, and nothing in it struck me as a “dog ear” worthy page. The few bits that I felt were at least somewhat interesting and worth reading were the first sections sentences that focused on the effects of abusive parents and that whole package.
I had this book on my mobile for a while now , and today i was in the mood for something short but beautiful so i decided to read this , and i am so glad i did .
Mild and Honey , is a poetry book about love . loss . abuse . healing . moving on . femininity and other subjects that interests me as a girl .
i thought the poems were so honest and beautifully written and i absolutely loved them . i don't know why i felt so warm reading this. it was really beautiful.
I know i said 'beautiful' a lot in this review , but that's what i'd describe this book . it's beautiful.
In fact . it's not beautiful ... It's exquisite .
I think every woman should read this . really recommended
It was really easy to read it and that’s probably it for the good things. Maybe I’m exaggerating because the author really seemed genuine and touched by what she wrote but as a reader, it kinda felt plain even tho I could relate to some of the stories but nothing more.
The reading felt like those instagram poetry stuff, this work feels unfinished and like drafts from the Notes app on your phone you’re not supposed to share.
I finished it in one go because I just wanted to be over with it
The reading felt like those instagram poetry stuff, this work feels unfinished and like drafts from the Notes app on your phone you’re not supposed to share.
I finished it in one go because I just wanted to be over with it
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
sad
fast-paced
reflective
fast-paced
There are several good drafts for poetry in this book, however all of it notably feels incomplete. Ruby has some great ideas and touches on several sensitive topics such as female sexuality and emotional abuse that certainly deserve the exposure that they have received and the care that she is giving whilst explaining her own life experiences.
It's just the entire book just has that feeling of being the authors first draft and it can't escape that roughness which does arguably add to the emotion. I reckon if she were to return to this book now that it's been about a decade since she wrote these poems and expanded upon them that they would easily be decent at worst; she does have good ideas it's just she doesn't know really how to express them. That's my main issue with the entire genre of instapoetry. The poets world touch on sensitive topics and give them exposure and reach out and give voices to those who need them but all of it relies on the premise that one can just read it and be done with the poem in seconds.
Again it's great that poetry now has options like this as a way to get new readers because it is a very important art form. And I would recommend at least checking it out just to see how Ruby's poetry feels since the merit of instapoetry is that there is at least nothing like it in canonical poetry. And sometimes it's nice just to read shower thoughts so to say.
It's just the entire book just has that feeling of being the authors first draft and it can't escape that roughness which does arguably add to the emotion. I reckon if she were to return to this book now that it's been about a decade since she wrote these poems and expanded upon them that they would easily be decent at worst; she does have good ideas it's just she doesn't know really how to express them. That's my main issue with the entire genre of instapoetry. The poets world touch on sensitive topics and give them exposure and reach out and give voices to those who need them but all of it relies on the premise that one can just read it and be done with the poem in seconds.
Again it's great that poetry now has options like this as a way to get new readers because it is a very important art form. And I would recommend at least checking it out just to see how Ruby's poetry feels since the merit of instapoetry is that there is at least nothing like it in canonical poetry. And sometimes it's nice just to read shower thoughts so to say.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Sexual content