I have always heard people talking about a specific author and all the stuff they said about her seemed to amaze me. Rupi Kaur. That’s her name. She does not write only books, she started her writing life as a poetist. Not only that, she is also an artist. All of her books are illustrated with her own drawings. The special thing about her work is that she writes about heartbreaks, feminism and about real life. She is known as the ‘Instapoet’, because her poems are most shared on Instagram and, actually, it was on Instagram that I first saw her work and it was love at first sight.
I only know two books that were written by Rupi: ‘the sun and her flowers’ and ‘milk and honey’, but I read only one of them: 'milk and honey'. This book transports those who read it to a journey through bitter moments of life and takes care of them in a delicate way. The book is mostly about love and heartbreak but, here and there, we have parts about social issues, like feminism or immigration. Also, the book isn’t written in the common form, which is only one big text divided in chapters and paragraphs, it’s all written in poems.
I honestly am not a super fan of reading, but since the book is so different and dynamic I did enjoy reading it and it was super quick to finish it. The poems don’t have an order but they are all surprisingly connected. The book is separated in 4 chapters, each one with its own pain, its own hurt and its own cure. They are: ‘the hurting’, ‘the loving’, ‘the breaking’ and ‘the healing’, they are basically the stages from loving to heartbreak.
Her poems were so beautifully structured and all the rhymes were so perfectly prepared and written that you could feel what she felt while writing them.
by Johanna Karcher
REVIEW: Milk and Honey - The art in Rupi Kaur's book
- The HoneyThe art in Rupi
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“The idea that we are so capable to love, but still choose to be toxic”
(By Rupi Kaur)
All of them were too good for me to have only one favourite, but, either way, one really caught my attention:
Now you may be asking: why did it catch your attention? Well, it caught me because it’s a super relatable quote. Nowadays it’s pretty common for people to choose hate or toxicity instead of love, unfortunately. I love this quote because it translates a lot of words into one small sentence that, for me, speaks it all. I’ve read some other reviews about this book that mostly said that the book was nonsense and messy, but in my opinion this is what makes the book interesting. It isn’t that basic type of book or even poetry, it’s Rupi’s type. Her books and poems are her signature so it wouldn’t be so interesting and cool if it was like all the other books that we are familiarized with.
This is the thing about art, it isn’t meant to be all identical, every artist, author, poetist, every person has its own signature and that is one of the reasons why I fell in love with Rupi’s books and poems. Another reason that made me fall in love with her work is the fact that she is super honest about her experiences in life and that she isn’t ashamed of them. Most of the stories and poems in the book are about Rupi’s own experiences in life. Most of the poems are about a relationship where the man loved the woman but just kind of used her, and that woman is the one and only Rupi. And those were all the reasons that made this book be #1 New York Times Bestseller.