This book of poetry has become very popular within the last year and I hope it stays on people’s minds. However, I don’t believe this book was written to be raved about, talked about or suppose to be “popular." I don’t know what author Rupi Kaur’s intentions were exactly, but I can imagine her just wanting this to be simply read. Read and shut repeatedly until we the readers realize the words she has written do mean something.
"Milk and Honey" is a collection of poems written by Rupi Kaur, who is originally from India but lives in Ontario, Canada. It is varied with words containing heartbreak, love, insight, abuse, and femininity; it is obvious. Although the ideas or maybe personal experiences she has written about are universal themes, they are important. For a woman, every word she has written is important. I don’t know this author, but I believe her to be very intelligent and brave. Her thoughts are raw and real and deep down every woman knows is true.
She is expressing many opinions that have been pushed aside by society because “rape is too hard to talk about or too controversial” and “stop talking about your period because it’s inappropriate” and “you’re a woman so you mean less." Kaur spills beautiful truth over the pages of her book. If one reads this and doesn’t like it, they are expecting too much from it; they want it to exceed their expectations of what a novel is suppose to be. Kaur’s poetry is written with such truth and emotion I don’t see how one would want to seek more the that from poetry.
I do believe every woman should read this book even if they cannot relate to it because it does relate to another woman, another sister in the world, and that’s enough reason for me.
