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The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur

22 reviews

jelieys's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious tense fast-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Medical trauma, Gaslighting, and Abandonment

werepsyche's review against another edition

inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

2.75

i think kaur is a wonderful poet, i think her experiences and the way she writes about them really give power to the words she writes, but lord. some of these poems just weren't it. they felt like statements, rehashed slogans and phrases i've heard over and over again with no unique take. poetry doesn't to be unique, and poetry can certainly look like this, but i suppose it wasn't really for me.

there were gems in what i considered most of this to be rather uninspired writing wise, though, some poems that i liked, but the numbers are small and quickly dwindled in frequency as the book carried on.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Grief, and Abortion

Moderate: War

shayna14's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Grief, Death of parent, Sexual harassment, and Colonisation

blueyogi's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Rape, and Grief

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Fatphobia, Sexism, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Abandonment, and Colonisation

Minor: Cancer, Infidelity, Mental illness, Blood, Abortion, Colonisation, and Dysphoria

sahla's review against another edition

3.25

how had i ever convinced myself that rupi kaur is a bad poet? 
this collection is exquisite. 
poetry written in freeverse, and with an accessible language isn't below me, it is still above me. 

rupi kaur deals with a multitude of topics in here, ranging from love, relationships, family, to her personal experiences with abuse and sa, self-hatred, growing out of the toxicity to love herself, culture, immigration, feminism, and a myriad of other political issues that need to be talked about. i am so glad i read this.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, and Abortion

shelvesofivy's review against another edition

hopeful reflective

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

Moderate: Misogyny and Abortion

Minor: Colonisation

fanboyriot's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

3.0

There were some poems that I really enjoyed reading, there is something comforting within the depressing poems.  There were a few that I didn’t care for but the poems seemed blunt and to the point.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, and Grief

Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Mental illness, Self harm, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Child death, Eating disorder, Hate crime, Racism, Violence, Religious bigotry, Abortion, Pregnancy, and Gaslighting

lulusreads's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

3.75

“i am the first woman in my lineage with freedom of choice. to craft her future whichever way i choose. say what is on my mind when i want to. without the whip of the lash. there are hundreds of firsts i am thankful for. that my mother and her mother and her mother did not have the privilege of feeling. what an honor”

I felt so seen from Rupi’s collection to her mother. 

The book as a whole had lots of honest & relatable lines from a broken soul to true love to family to finding self confidence. Let the sunshine on your flowers 🌻 

the only thing I don’t like from modern poetry or at least this author is when one sentence that isn’t that profound takes up a whole page “the road to changing the world is never-ending” doesn’t need an entire blank page. Some of the pages didn’t even have a cute drawing to makeup for the lack of content 😕

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Content Warnings

Minor: Body shaming, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Blood, Grief, Religious bigotry, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Classism

hannahpa's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective relaxing sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Rape, and Sexual assault

skyfluff8's review against another edition

hopeful reflective medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Blood, Abortion, and Colonisation