So I liked this book because I wasn’t left wondering ‘what the hell did that mean?’ after each poem her intentions were obvious, which I appreciated.Īs a poet should, Kaur had a beautiful way of describing things, and striking phrases that will stick with me for awhile. Oh, and there are (sometimes graphic) line illustrations accompanying some of the poems, which really help the reader to understand what the poet is trying to say. It basically deals with sexual abuse, a passionate adult relationship following that, the break-up, and then the healing from that breakup. It’s split into four sections, and is not for the faint of heart. Warning: milk and honey is most definitely not a humorous collection (I thought you might think that, based on the sentence above). And although I hate landscape and nature poetry with a passion, I do enjoy a bit of humor poetry, or poems with a strong narrative behind them, so milk and honey was a good fit for me. I am THAT deep of a person, thank you very much. I love being able to tell people I read poetry, even if it’s just a short, smug response ” Why yes, I read a bit of poetry” (with an expression that would say, ‘doesn’t everyone’?). The title milk and honey was inspired by a poem Rupi wrote in 2012, where she used milk and honey as a metaphor to describe the strength and resilience of. So I don’t read poetry very often, but the good folks at Simon and Schuster offered to send me this book in return for an honest review, and I had heard of Rupi Kaur before ( on buzzfeed nonetheless) so I agreed to give it a go.
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