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A review by fromjuliereads
When You Ask Me Where I'm Going by Jasmin Kaur
challenging
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
3.5
**Thank you to Harper Collins Canada for providing me with a copy of this book.**
This was a really well-done book of poetry and prose. I enjoyed the addition of the artwork, and how some things were handwritten and drawn. It added more of a personal element to the poems and the story as a whole. It was also interesting how there was prose through the middle that told a story. Mixed media can make a more interesting read!
I liked how Jasmin Kaur explores such serious topics in these poems, but contrasts them with poems about more abstract or natural things.
I enjoyed the poems and think it is well done, this is more just a "it's not you, it's me." I feel like if I was someone who genuinely enjoyed all modern poetry and forms of poetry, I would have enjoyed it a lot more and been able to rate it higher. Unfortunately, I'm a bit picky with poetry...
I will say though that it was kind of fun to read something that referenced an area of Canada I know quite well!
Note: the poet makes a pop culture reference that some may be uncomfortable with in light of recent author actions in one of the poems, the term horcux is used
This was a really well-done book of poetry and prose. I enjoyed the addition of the artwork, and how some things were handwritten and drawn. It added more of a personal element to the poems and the story as a whole. It was also interesting how there was prose through the middle that told a story. Mixed media can make a more interesting read!
I liked how Jasmin Kaur explores such serious topics in these poems, but contrasts them with poems about more abstract or natural things.
I enjoyed the poems and think it is well done, this is more just a "it's not you, it's me." I feel like if I was someone who genuinely enjoyed all modern poetry and forms of poetry, I would have enjoyed it a lot more and been able to rate it higher. Unfortunately, I'm a bit picky with poetry...
I will say though that it was kind of fun to read something that referenced an area of Canada I know quite well!
Note: the poet makes a pop culture reference that some may be uncomfortable with in light of recent author actions
Content Warnings
Moderate: Drug use, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence