Review by agniceberg - The Sun and Her Flowers

agniceberg 's review for:

The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur

2.5

dark emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

I am not a poetry expert. More so, I rarely actually read poetry, but when I do, I usually enjoy it - it inspires me, makes me feel, think and reflect. However, I did not like this edition. Most of the poems seemed forced to me and most of them them felt just dull. When I read, my thoughts shifted away from them and made me think - were these poems written just for the sake to be written and be sold or am I wrong...? Because that's how I felt.

There were good lines, definitely. And the topics in Kaur's poems are very important, but if felt so... blunt, in some cases even superficial. I have to note this - maybe it seemed to me because I read these poems in my native language and not in English. Nevertheless, I enjoyed her poems in "Milk and Honey" which I also read in my native language, so... maybe not.

I would not recommend this as your first poetry book, because I'm afraid this gives wrong impression of what poetry can do and make you fell. That said, I am curious what will come next of Kaur, because as much I hated "The Sun and Her Flowers", I loved "Milk and Honey", so right now I am 50:50 of what I can expect from her.

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