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Milk and Honey Paperback – October 6, 2015

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#1 New York Times bestseller Milk and Honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. About the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity.

The book is divided into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose. Deals with a different pain. Heals a different heartache. Milk and Honey takes readers through a journey of the most bitter moments in life and finds sweetness in them because there is sweetness everywhere if you are just willing to look.

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"At age 24, Rupi Kaur has been called the voice of her generation." (USA Today)

“Rupi Kaur has vision beyond her years … Her work is simply but powerfully expressed, and viscerally captures both universal human experience and the particular struggles of a young woman today." (Huffington Post)

Rupi’s poetry is simple, relatable, gorgeous, and grounded in the everyday experiences of young women. (Rachel Grate, Hello Giggles)

"A must-have poetry collection about healing and hope." (Bustle)

Rupi Kaur's first book, Milk and Honey is the poetry collection every woman needs on her nightstand or coffee table. Accompanied by her own sketches, the beautifully honest poems read like the everyday, collective experiences of today's modern woman. (Erin Spencer, Huffington Post)

“Discussing themes of love, loss, and healing, Milk and Honey finds a way to connect to every reader. “ (Business Insider)

"Milk and Honey brings any tormented reader to an enlightened state of self-reflection that may have taken years to accomplish alone.”
(Elite Daily)

The honest words of Rupi Kaur leave you continuously wanting more as she writes with eloquence and poise. Her work will send you to past thoughts and realities you might not have known you had.
(Sienna Brown, WildSpice Magazine)

Rupi Kaur’s writing echoes of artistry and wisdom which is seen in the work of those that have been writing for years. (Samira Sawlani, Media Diversified)

About the Author

Rupi Kaur is a poet, artist, and performer. Her works have taken the literary world by storm. Her second book, the sun and her flowers—an instant global bestseller, is an artistic sibling to her debut, milk and honey—one of America's bestselling books of 2017.

“i am the product of all the ancestors getting together and deciding these stories need to be told.”

Rupi sees her work as an articulation of this vision. She’s an eternal artist. At the age of five, her mother handed her a paintbrush and said, “draw your heart out.” At seventeen, she happened upon a local open mic night where she performed her first spoken word poem. She fell in love with performance poetry that night. Rupi continued performing across Canada, while building a community of readers and poetry enthusiasts. While studying at the University of Waterloo, Rupi wrote, illustrated, and self-published her first collection, milk and honey. In the years since, milk and honey has become an international phenomenon. It’s sold over 3 million copies, been translated into more than 35 languages, and landed as a #1 New York Times bestseller—where it has spent more than 100 consecutive weeks.

“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.”

Rupi explores a variety of themes in her work ranging from love, loss, trauma, healing, femininity, migration, and revolution. She’s a storyteller and chronicler—a repository of community and history. There’s a simplicity and nuance to her work that has found a home in the hearts of millions. This magic is captured in her stage performances, which are magnetic musical interactions of poetry, art, and theater. Rupi's long-awaited second collection, the sun and her flowers, was published in 2017 and debuted as a #1 global bestseller. Within the first three months it sold a million copies and was embraced by readers worldwide. She’s a Forbes 30 under 30, an editor of the 2016 Mays Literary Anthology of New Writing from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and one of BBC’s 100 Women. Rupi hopes to continue her artistic exploration through art and poetry—searching for ways to understand and articulate.

i stand
on the sacrifices
of a million women before me thinking
what can i do
to make this mountain taller so the women after me
can see farther
- legacy

Product details

Paperback: 208 pages
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing; Reprint edition (October 6, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9781449474256
ISBN-13: 978-1449474256
ASIN: 144947425X
Product Dimensions: 5 x 0.5 x 7.7 inches
Shipping Weight: 7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Customer Reviews: 12,400 customer ratings
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #567 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #2 in Poetry by Women
- #4 in Love Poems
- #2 in Inspirational & Religious Poetry (Books)

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Reviewed in the United States on November 4, 2018

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When my 8th grader asked for this book I read the reviews and ratings and ordered it because (1) yay, she’s reading and (2) totally on board with women’s empowerment. I did not see anything in the information about the sexually explicit “poems” or graphics sprinkled throughout. There will be a page with something totally appropriate for a middle school/high schooler, then bam! you get hit with a shocking graphic or verse. (I tried to post an example and my review was denied because it was too obscene. Enough said.) Thank God I picked it up out of curiosity so I could explain to her why I was going to shelf it for a couple of years before giving it to her. There are some good messages for girls/women, but on the other hand I may never be able to eat another cantaloupe again. The quality of the writing (meh...) is not the issue here because the shock value screams out so loudly.

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Overrated and Underwhelming

Reviewed in the United States on June 25, 2018

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I am so disappointed in this book. I finished this book in under 30 minutes. I only liked maybe 3 or 4 poems. Most of the poems sound like the tweets and Facebook statuses of a whiny 14 year-old. Other poems were just uncomfortable to read. I think there is power and something unequivocally beautiful about poems that eloquently speak about pain, the strength to overcome, and the growth that ensues. The poems were awkward, overrated, and underwhelming. I can't get over the format either. There were poorly drawn sketches next to a many poems. One poem was even placed in-between the sprawled legs of a woman as if the poem was her vag. Also, all the letters were in lowercase which drove me NUTS. It would be worth checking this out in the library before purchasing it.

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Lacey

Terrible! How is this book so popular?!

Reviewed in the United States on November 16, 2017

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kudos to the marketing team behind this book that have
managed to hype up a
steamy turd of literature.
the author
may have lived a very
traumatic life
but this is not poetry or anything that resembles poetry.
very dumbed down,
maybe would have gotten a C-
had I written any of these in middle school,
how are people actually enjoying this book?
My
14 year old
requested it
(trendy)
and even she read a page and was disappointed...
bland and unimaginative.

PS: I have now written poetry according to the example set by milk and honey

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Bree

Wasn't for me

Reviewed in the United States on April 5, 2017

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I'm going to be that person. I purchased this book thinking there was no way I couldn't appreciate it. With amazing reviews and topping the charts, I was so excited to read this. I was incredibly disappointed. The book resembles Facebook statuses from your one friend who is overly emotional about an ex. The beginning of the book did not have me in tears, but questioning the language. I feel poetry is where you have the most freedom to play with words and how they flow and sound together, and it really did not meet my expectations. Some of the one liners I'm sure I've seen from other people on photo captions - so basic that it's difficult to call it original material. I felt uncomfortable reading it, and I really wanted to feel empathetic. It wasn't for me at all. Probably the most disappointed I've ever been after reading poetry.

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Charles Kirschner

How do you like your tea?

Reviewed in the United States on November 6, 2018

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Based on the dichotomy of positive and negative reviews, it's clear that "Milk and Honey" isn't everyone's cup of tea. I enjoyed it, but then I could relate to many of the stories of love, heartache, grief, pain, and healing conveyed throughout this collection. I fully understand that others may not find any such connection with Kaur's writing, particularly if they haven't experienced the human condition through a lens similar to Kaur's. In a medium like poetry, the essence of the author's personal expression is as an individual sharing something that is both honest and personal — not everyone is going to appreciate it and that's okay.

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Nicholas

something everyone needs to feel.

Reviewed in the United States on July 8, 2018

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being a man, i read the first few pages and could not put it down. read the entire book in just over an hour. read every little bit carefully. so much emotion rose from me after reading this. has become apart of my collection. in love with it.

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LoriandTom R.

Hallmark cards are better poetry. It seriously worries me that this is ...

Reviewed in the United States on September 4, 2017

Who keeps rating this book with four and five stars? I am generally one of the most open people to defining art. But this stuff is not art. This is some of the most trite poetry I have ever read, and exemplifies zero skill of poetic craft. Hallmark cards are better poetry. It seriously worries me that this is what passes for poetry today and people eat it up. Says more about the shallowness of readers than it doe about her poetic skill.

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Not what I'd expected...

Reviewed in the United States on April 22, 2018

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Borderline x rated at times. Feels like reading poetry from a teenage girls diary, delving into depression, rape, and suicidal tendencies. Probably not a book that you want in a teen's hands to say the least.

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Marco D.

Tolles Buch zum Verfließen mit kleinem Abstrich !

Reviewed in Germany on April 8, 2019

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Ich habe dieses Buch auf Wunsch meiner 13jährigen Tochter (Nebeneffekt das Aufbessern der englischen Sprache) bestellt und möchte nachfolgend Ihre eigenen Worte gerne zusammenfassen.

Die Gedichte in diesem Buch sind wunderschön geschrieben und gehen einem wirklich ans Herz, regen zum Nachdenken an und werfen Fragen sowie Zweifel auf. Es werden zugleich viele Emotionen geweckt die einen wirklich auch fesseln weiterzulesen, die Schriftstellerin Rudi Kaur hat Ihre geschriebenen Zeilen wirklich gut bedacht und auch verständlich geschrieben, dennoch mussten wir stellenweise die sinngemäße Übersetzung googeln :-)

Einziges Manko an diesem Buch ist, das sehr viele Seiten nur mit ein paar Wörtern beschrieben sind (siehe Bilder), daher 1 Stern Abzug in der Wertung. Wahrscheinlich wurde das auch bewusst so gemacht, jedoch gefällt uns das nicht so gut.

Generell würden wir eine Kaufempfehlung aussprechen und es wohl auch wieder kaufen!

Mit der Lieferung durch Amazon war alles perfekt, das Buch in NEU Zustand und in Umverpackung geliefert.

Sollte unsere Rezession für EUCH hilfreich gewesen sein, so würden wir uns freuen, wenn Ihr einen Klick auf den NÜTZLICH Button machen würdet :-)

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Melissa

Sprachlos

Reviewed in Germany on November 29, 2017

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Ich würde sehr gerne mehr zu diesem Buch schreiben, aber es hat mich auf eine Art und Weise berührt, die mich sprachlos gemacht hat. Ich empfehle dieses Buch jedem, der schonmal verliebt, verletzt oder verloren war. Eigentlich empfehle ich es jedem weiter, weil es ein künstlerisches Weisterwerk ist. Alles sehr schlicht gehalten, aber in jeder Seite steckt so viel Herzblut und einige Poems haben mich sogar zum weinen gebracht.
Habe noch nie eine Rezension geschrieben, aber hier musste es wirklich sein. Einfach zu schön :‘)

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I would definitely recommend Milk and Honey to you

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 5, 2017

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Relatable, raw and enlightening, Milk and Honey takes you on a poetical journey through real and serious topics.
If you're new to poetry and are looking for a poetry book to get you started, I would definitely recommend Milk and Honey to you! Easy to read yet packed with emotion and small details, Milk and Honey is sure to pull you into the wonderful world of poetry.
Throughout the book, we are treated to some beautiful illustrations which compliment the poems perfectly.
Give this book a go, even if poetry isn't your thing as you will likely be pleasantly surprised! I passed this book onto one of my best friends who I thought would also benefit from hearing these poems of real, heart wrenching life struggles.
Milk and Honey is one book that will stay with me in my heart for a long time!

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 23, 2019

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I'm not easily shocked.
My main concern is that this book if being promoted by someone on you tube aimed at 12/13/14 year olds.
I do not consider this modern poetry.

As someone who has worked with adult surivors I would say this is not suitable reading let alone for a teenager.

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Super underwhelming

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 31, 2018

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Maybe one in every 20 "poems" is any good. As another reviewer pointedly said, writing common sense short sentences in random spaces without punctuation or capital letters does not make it poetry. It feels more like a collection of my friends' half-arsed Instagram captions...

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Poemario de moda que merece la pena

Reviewed in Spain on March 22, 2018

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Poemario de Rupi Kaur que apareció en casi todas las cuentas de Instagram del mundo. Publicado en 2014 presenta 204 páginas en su versión en inglés divididas en cuatro capítulos (the hurting, the loving, the breaking, the healing). Cada hoja contiene al menos un dibujo en forma de garabato hecho a mano por lo que, personalmente, recomiendo comprar el ejemplar en formato físico para poder disfrutarlo como pretendía la autora. Igualmente recomiendo adquirirlo en Inglés ya que, aunque el trabajo de los traductores puede ser excepcional, las rimas pueden cambiar.

En mi opinión, "Milk and Honey" es un libro que merece la pena, pero tampoco soy una persona que lea mucha poesía como para poder opinar con propiedad. Se añaden fotos del producto junto a un bolígrafo para apreciar las dimensiones.

[Si te resultó interesante mi comentario me ayudarías mucho votando "sí" en la pregunta de abajo sobre si te resultó útil mi opinión, gracias]

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Luana

Perplexing

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 16, 2018

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I was a bit perplexed about all the hype around this book. Some of the poems, in their simplicity and directness, I found beautiful and sounding "true". But many more were, to me, quite banal and empty. I also felt a bit uncomfortable with how graphic some of them are, but this may be just personal preferences. To me, 2 1/2 stars for this books - halfway.

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Inspiring - a must for teenage girls

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 26, 2018

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Bought for teenage daughter (15.5 years). She cannot put it down, keeps reading out poems saying 'listen to this..'. She can liken poems to particular friends and to both their and her relationships. I thoroughly recommend this book for teenage girls. They face unparalleled challenges and these poems relate to so many issues that they face themselves. Brilliant piece of literature Rupi Kaur.

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Recommended

Reviewed in India on July 18, 2018

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I received the product on time. So kudos to the logistics team. I love this book. There's absolutely nothing not to love about it. The cover of the book is so soft and velvety , it's quite different from the usual paperback covers. Also love her sketches . Every bit of the verses have life in them. I highly recommend purchasing it! One could just pick up the book and start from any random page. That's the beauty of this book.

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Instapoetry.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 30, 2017

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Worth reading, but I'm not sure it warrants the hype. Perhaps I'm getting old.

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Didn’t live up to reviews

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Amazing and powerful

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 11, 2017

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Amazing and powerful. Not just if you've been through an abusive relationship - be it a parent or a partner - but just as a human being. My copy is already well worn and I've brought at least 4 copies for friends. Just beautiful.

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An Amazing Debut Anthology

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 24, 2019

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It was very refreshing reading this after I had read Rupi Kaur's second book because of how different her writing is. This book was more vulnerable and naïve but still so beautifully written. I waited to read this book of poetry because I was waiting for the hardback as I wanted a matching pair. It has etched edges and a bookmark string attached which I love. Her art is beautiful and I love how cultural a lot of her poems are. I am so inspired by Rupi it is unreal! If you haven't yet read either of her books then I recommend that you get your hands on them and read!

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Really worth the wait!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 28, 2017

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Absolutely over the moon with this purchase! Lovely book 📖 would not give it to anyone under the age of 16 to be honest.

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Beautiful relatable poetry

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 16, 2019

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Milk and honey is rupi kaur’s journey through heartache, love and self-healing, and what an incredible journey it is. Split into four parts that cover her life, you feel each and every emotion rupi conveys. You hear her laugh, cry and pick herself up, and there are moments where you imagine holding her hand because that’s the exact feeling you’ve felt in the same situation.

Most of the pieces have their own page and some poems have rough drawings to illustrate the writing. This gives the poetry more depth and highlights specific points. This collection of poetry is achingly beautiful.

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