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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