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Home Body by Rupi Kaur

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themeanfrench's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

2.75

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dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

3.5

ES:

Me encanta Rupi Kaur, es mi poetisa favorita. Por eso, cuando me enteré de que tenía una nueva edición de su último libro "Home body" no lo dudé y me lancé.
Creo que la autora lidia con temas complejos como los abusos y la violencia sobre la mujer, la inmigración y el cariño a una misma. En este caso, a esta lista de temas se une la salud mental y la depresión (que la autora pasó previamente a escribir el libro). De hecho, hay unos pocos de los poemas que hablan de cómo la vorágine editorial la afectó a ella y a su trabajo creativo.

A pesar del trabajo creativo de la autora, y de la cantidad de poemas que marqué, sin embargo se me ha quedado corto. Creo que este poemario tenía mucho potencial y su complejidad daba pie a poemas más largos y abstractos...y sin embargo, propulaban textos más cortos que, al menos a mí, no me han llegado tanto.
¿Me ha gustado? Sí. ¿Esperaba más? También. Rupi es capaz de entenderme, pero en este caso mi libro era más largo y complejo que el espejo que ella me ha dado para reflejarme. ¿La leeré más? Siempre.

EN:

This is a strange book to review because Rupi Kaur is my favorite poet and I was very, very excited for this book.
In "Home body" Kaur explores some of her usual topics such as violences against women, inmigración and self-love, but she explores mental health a bit more, especially how it has affect her personally in her creative process, which includes also the very fast publishing industry.
I love how she creates poetry around this topics and I have marked quite a few poems. However, despite all of this I had the feeling that this poetry collection was missing something. It felt short. The complexity of its topics called in my opinion for longer, more complex poems, and yet, this time around Kaur those to write extremely short works (in some cases one or two lines poems). Which, in my opinion is a pity.
I do Belice she touched my heart more with "The sun and her flowers", but I enjoyed this collection, but I think that this happened because normally Kaur´s words reflects how I feel... and maybe this time my internal world was too chaotic. I was definitely looking for more abstract, methaforical pieces...but some of this works also resonated with me.

I do believe I was expecting more of the collection than what it delivered. However, I liked this collection and I will continue reading what Rupi writes

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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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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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