Book Review
The Sun and her Flowers by Rupi Kaur. Simon & Schuster £12.99
Rupi Kaur is a Canadian poet and performer, of Punjabi descent. In this book, she depicts various aspects of her life, which feel universal. It is a self-reflective, biographical collection of sensitive, accessible, beautiful and hard-hitting poetry, which speaks loudly and clearly of family, love, sex, beauty, anger, a rape and healing. Often with poetry books, I find myself dipping in sporadically. This book is best read cover to cover. Some favourite lines:
i do not weep
because I am unhappy
i weep because i have everything
yet i am unhappy
From the poem: all you own is yourself
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a lot of times
we are angry with other people
for not doing what
we should have done ourselves
-responsibility
it is a trillion billion dollar industry that would collapse
if we believed we were beautiful enough already
their concept of beauty
is manufactured
i am not
- human
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