It seems as if you were reading a diary of your friend. Rupi’s own illustrations add a personal touch and an illusion of her presence in every poem. Milk and Honey has a foreword written by the author. It counts 226 pages and includes a woven ribbon marker. This is a hardcover edition with a portrait-oriented text. Expect to see thrilling adventures with Andy Weir’s protagonists set on the moon. The Artemis book review is a must-read for everyone interested in science fiction. For more than 77 weeks, this piece of writing has remained on the New York Times Best Seller list. It was translated into more than 25 languages. The poems quickly made their way to the worldwide recognition due to their relevance in modern society and artistic simplicity. With tremendous success, more than 2.5 million copies of the poetry collection were sold. In 2015, it was professionally released once again by a Canadian publisher.

Her debut Milk and Honey book was self-published in November 2014, after Kaur completed her degree in rhetoric studies. The associate editor and journalist at Publishers Weekly John Maher stated that poetry sales figures indeed increased in 2017, but that happened 2 years after Rupi Kaur published her book. This cannot be accepted as a high appreciation of her work because “instapoets” are considered as the authors who rise their fame using social media as leverage. Rupi Kaur has a lot of followers on social media, and some critics call her work “instapoetry,” a new genre in modern art. Milk and Honey is a short book, but it includes a strong message and remains very popular due to the author’s Instagram posts. You will learn more about the life and survival paths of ordinary people during World War II. Read this review of We Were the Lucky Ones, a best-seller from Georgia Hunter. The author breaks her book into 4 parts and gives them the following names: As an internationally acclaimed poet, she finds a response in readers’ hearts and is warmly accepted by the people who value her direction in art. In her poems, Kaur continues to explore themes that seem too personal and are considered as social taboos. The provocative photos were removed by the website but afterwards brought back. They were a part of her undergraduate project. In 2015, she posted a series of eccentric photographs described as visual poetry. In high school, she started writing and shared her poems and illustrations on Instagram.

At the age of 5, she was inspired by her mother to paint and draw. Prerequisitesīorn in India, Rupi Kaur immigrated to Canada with her parents when she was 4. This family saga from Jeannette Walls is a memoir that describes the life of difficult parents and their kids’ upbringing. If you are interested in books about family relationships, read The Glass Castle review.

Milk and honey by Rupi Kaur