The passages here are full of passion and some are explicit in nature. It’s about falling in love and having a serious relationship for the first time. While not focused solely on childhood per se, I ended up having a pretty full sense of her childhood experiences by section’s end. Also covers Kaur’s relationship with her mother and father. It deals with sexual abuse and trauma in a hard-hitting way.

The first section is called The Hurting and it has some trigger-warning worthy material. ** Note – this section will include some revealing information about the content of these chapters. This book is split into four distinct sections, each embodying a different phase in the author’s life. But there were definitely some that fell flat, if not clunking on a trip all the way down. Pleasantly surprised by how many of the poems were touching.

Milk and Honey seemed like the logical first step, this being her first collection of poems. The trigger for my reading this title was reading a few poems from the sequel, The Sun And Her Flowers, and finding that I can relate to this person’s perspective and background to some marked extent. It’s really a matter of how much you can relate to the subjects tackled and openness to the style.

There are some amusing diatribes from people critical of the author’s highly simple approach (many of these poems are basically haikus, many of the pages containing a single haiku on a vast and otherwise empty page- admittedly a lazy- looking approach I guess) but I’ve read/watched some very encouraging reviews from people who connected with the author’s subject matter. Though the reviews seem prevailing positive. This is known to be a very approachable poetry collection, with easily understood subject matter. There may be great depth there but I’m more moved by poetic writing styles rather than straight poetry. In fact, I don’t get poetry by-and-large and feel a sort of inner cringe sometimes when listening to spoken poetry or reading some pieces in isolation. ‘milk and honey’ takes readers through a journey of the most bitter moments in life and finds sweetness in them because there is sweetness everywhere if you are just willing to look.įirst, a most important disclosure- I’m not a poetry reader. It is split into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose. About the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity. Milk and honey’ is a collection of poetry and prose about survival.

Rupi kaur poems milk and honey