Kaur’s words will stay with you long after you’ve turned the final page, inspiring you to live life with greater depth and meaning. If you’re looking for a poetic journey through the twists and turns of the human heart, Milk and Honey is a perfect choice. With each poem, Kaur invites us to take a deeper look at ourselves and the world around us, embrace both the light and the dark, and find the beauty in all of it.
Poems that could very well be called motivational quotes at best, debut that could be a fine Instagram poetry page.This collection is a true work of art-a homage to the power of our emotions and the importance of introspection. The feeling that it’s a work of little passion and almost no creativity shouts out from every page down to every word. Although some pieces were centered around feminism, female sexuality, rape, and consensual sex, etc., overall they lacked any imagination that could make them memorable or even inspiring for a reader. Milk and Honey doesn’t even qualify to be shelved under modern poetry. Modern poetry differs from traditional poetry and a lot of authors have been great at penning down some real good books with mirth. A majority of them are plain thoughts lacking all elements of poetry namely – craft, richness of language, vocabulary, ideas, intellect, figures of speech, or heartfelt thinking. Milk and Honey is a collection of words put together with unnecessary line breaks to make sentences look like poems, or perhaps for style it’s hard to tell. I now wonder how could they have missed something so obvious! High on returns is what this book feels like on the surface what with all the hype and the straight-up five-star reviews from a tonnes of readers. Right from page one, I felt as though I was promised a garden of roses, and was led blindfold into a dried front lawn of a house long abandoned. “people go but how they left always stays” Now that I’ve read the book, I feel there are a lot of better poetry books to read than this overrated debut.
One fine afternoon having nothing to do, when a Kindle notification hit up on my phone for free ebooks to explore, Milk and Honey was on the top of the freebie list. It felt like I was the only one who hadn’t read her books. Rupi Kaur has been quite the sensation in the world of poetry. Having said that, one is always searching for more soul-stirring poets who would dazzle life with their words, craft, take on life, etc.
So far, Vikram Seth, Charles Bukowski, Gulzar, Kaifi Azmi, Sylvia Plath, Edgar Allan Poe, have been my favorites. I can’t live without poetry and am always on the lookout for some kickass poetry books.
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