Rupi Kaur just published her second book of poetry, The Sun and Her Flowers, after her first book gained a cult following on social media. The Sun and Her Flowers has been a long time coming, successfully upholding the first book that had readers begging for more.
After months of waiting and plenty of social media advertising, Kaur released The Sun and Her Flowers on Oct. 3rd, giving her fans a beautifully simplistic book that only Kaur could produce. I bought her book on Amazon, and I would have read it four times already had the Mail Center not held it hostage for so long. But hey, it’s here, and I can no longer complain!
Kaur gives her book five chapters- “wilting,” “falling,” “rooting,” “rising,” and “blooming.” Each of the wonderful chapters sections off a different stage in Kaur’s life, from the breaking of a relationship to building herself back up again, from being okay with others loving her and showing how she fell in love with herself.
Kaur talks in vivid detail about dealing with the aftermath of a sexual assault, giving readers an inside glimpse into the most intimate moments she spent with herself after the attack. She draws readers in with her description and leaves them with an anger and hurt that only the best of authors can do.
The poems in The Sun and Her Flowers go from the heartbreak to rebirth, taking readers through the complicated journey that Kaur went through. She has a way of making readers cry with her and rejoice, showing the purest forms of emotion in just one line.
Kaur writes in short stanzas, sometimes with only a sentence on a page, and with all lowercase letters, making the book an aesthetically pleasing read. She also includes sketches, sometimes they are very small and other times they unforgivably take up the entire page, showing the hurt, anger, fear and love that Kaur holds in a way that isn’t poetry.
Milk and Honey, Kaur’s first book, received a lot criticism because people said it wasn’t complicated enough and that “anyone could write it.” And sure, anyone could write it, but no one did. While most writers try to talk over their reader’s heads, Kaur takes the raw emotion that sits in all of us and put it on paper. She is able to speak to anyone, from 13 to 103. Kaur may not write like Thorough, but she has an undeniable talent that will pull at your heart strings and leave you waiting for more.
The Sun and Her Flowers is a must-read for anyone, along with Milk and Honey. Kaur will amaze you with her writing and leave you feeling like you truly know her. Pick up a copy and immerse yourself in 248 pages of pure wonder.