The Sun and Her Flowers

“to healyou have toget to the rootof the woundand kiss it all the way up”

Une belle façon de démarrer l'année en lecture avec ce nouveau livre de Rupi Kaur qui a de nouveau résonné profondément en moi. De la poésie magnifique, touchante, qui ravive des blessures pour aider à les surmonter, ramène le sourire quand elle ne fait pas réfléchir en profondeur. Des messages d'une douceur et d'une humanité splendides.

Milk and honey was better.
A majority of the poems I either didn't like that much or wanted to skip. A few that I liked it and stood out to me.

Maybe reading Milk and honey made my expectations high, I kinda felt I was reading the same poems from her previous book, so that why it bores me and took me a long time to finish.

This collection of poetry deals with some relevant and important topics and themes including: grief, mental health, feminism, self-abandonment, honouring ones culture and roots and empowering oneself. The poet Rupi Kaur, whose poems are usually simplistic in tone is also responsible for encouraging a new generation of readers to try out poetry which is really encouraging and positive. However, I agree with the general consensus that Rupi Kaur's collections tend to stray on the side of over simplistic. Both of her collections are extremely similar in style, tone and structure and are both separated into four separate themes. I didn't enjoy that the collection wasn't particularly literary and that unfortunately for me the poetry wasn't very profound or original. The poetry towards the end became very repetitive and similar and I felt much of the content of the collection came from the urge to write about what is popular rather than a heartfelt collection. Unfortunately, for that reason the highest I can rate this collection is 3.5 stars.