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Home Body by Rupi Kaur

76 reviews

jularcido's review

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

I absolutely loved it. 

This reflective collection of poetry really soothes my heart. There is always an intimate beauty in words that remind us we are never alone.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Sexual violence, Rape, Mental illness, and Emotional abuse

lennie_reads's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Racism, and Rape

dale1997's review

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Mental illness, and Sexual violence

book_addict's review

dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Pedophilia, Mental illness, and Child abuse

bookish_burrow's review

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

3.0

Poetry is always a very difficult thing to rate especially since some poems and collections just might not resonate. Sadly, I found I did not resonate with this collection as much as I had resonated with Kaur’s previous work. 

This collection did not have as cohesive of a flow as her previous works did and so I struggled to read the collection as topics would bounce and did not seem to flow with the chapter titled themes. There were some more of the phrases found within the collection which is popular within modern poetry. While there were full length poems in this collection I was a little bummed to see so many phrase poems. This being said, there were poems I resonated with and found very beautiful. 

Do be aware that Kaur discusses many sensitive topics in this collection that may be triggering. I had to skip a few poems and put down the collection multiple times as they were too difficult and triggering for me to read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Rape, and Sexual content

Moderate: Mental illness and Racism

Minor: Toxic relationship

kirbybeaton's review

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, and Emotional abuse

brookey8888's review

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

I really enjoyed like all of these poems. I mean some of them I feel weren’t a poem but I’m not a poet so. Some of them I couldn’t relate to so they weren’t that impactful, but the ones I could I really enjoyed/felt.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Islamophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Sexual violence

readalongwithnat's review

hopeful reflective fast-paced

3.75

Perhaps Rupi's strongest collection yet.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Rape, and Sexual content

Minor: Genocide

livciotta's review

emotional reflective medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual assault, and Toxic relationship

kassidygoddard's review

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense

4.0

While just as good of a read as Kaur's previous and more well-known collections, home body is much more graphic and intense, more heavily handling the author's darker and more uncomfortable experiences and trauma. The collection maintains the author's beautiful and unique illustrations and poetry style. It is not without hopefulness, insight, and inspiration, but certainly a dark and mildy uncomfortable read for those more sensitive to certain topics.
Due to the short length and quick topic-changes of her individual poems, this collections is a quick read if you enjoy rushing through content, but perhaps best enjoyed slowly with contemplation and in small doses.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Rape, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Misogyny and Sexual content