![]() Kaur writes about survival and how essential survival is in the face of violence, rape, love, loss, and femininity. The healing is my favorite chapter, full of self-love, forgiveness, solidarity, and hope. In the breaking, I could physically feel the pain and torment of falling out of love, of desperately clinging to something you know is already gone. ![]() The loving is about falling in love with a man, but also with yourself. In the hurting, Kaur explores a woman’s education of her body and how punishing it can feel when a woman realizes her body is not always her own. The collection is divided into four chapters-the hurting, the loving, the breaking, and the healing-each dealing with a different kind of experience and pain. ![]() MILK AND HONEY is grounded in the everyday experiences of women and bears witness to both the beautiful and the brutal sides of being a woman. When I finally decided to pick up this extraordinary collection of poems, I immediately understood why everyone is so obsessed. So it meant something when all these young women were raving about Rupi Kaur’s MILK AND HONEY. ![]() ![]() Now, these are twentysomethings who barely read any of the books I send them-let alone poetry-and they don’t buy books regularly. Who says people don’t read poetry anymore? During the past several months, all my girlfriends have been reading the same collection of poetry. ![]()
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