Rupi Kaur

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of milk and honey and the sun and her flowers comes her greatly anticipated third collection of poetry. rupi kaur constantly embraces growth, and in home body, she walks readers through a reflective and intimate journey visiting the past, the present, and the potential of the self. home body is a collection of raw, honest conversations with oneself - reminding readers to fill up on love, acceptance, community, family, and embrace change. illustrated by the author, themes of nature and nurture, light and dark, rest here. i dive into the well of my body and end up in another world everything i need already exists in me there’s no need to look anywhere else —home

Home Body

sina (she/her) 

how do we sleep at night knowing the systems we uphold treat the foundations of our society as second-class citizens when they are the reason the wheels of this world stay turning 

when i could look in the mirror and take my own breath away

my mind keeps running off to dark corners and coming back with reasons for why i am not enough

nanafark

that everyone else is working harder than me

my mind keeps running off to dark corners

Lara owens 

sometimes i love you means i want to love you 

Sometimes i love you means ill stay a little while longer 

Sometimes i love you means i'm not sure how to leave

 Sometimes i love you means i have nowhere else to go

it feels like i'm watching my life happen through a fuzzy television screen. i feel far away from this world. almost foreign in this body. as if every happy memory has been wiped clean from the bowl of my mind. i close my eyes and i can't remember what happy feels like. my chest collapses into my stomach knowing that i have to get up in the morning and pretend im not fading away all over again. i want to reach out and touch things. i want to feel them touch me back. i want to live. iwant the vitality of my life back.

Karin Volarić

nisam samo moj najgori dan
nisam samo ono što mi se dogodilo
-podsjetnik


ili romantično sanjarim o prošlosti
ili se brinem zbog budućnosti
nije ni čudo
da se ne osjećam živom
kad ne živim
u jedinom trenutku koji je stvaran
-sadašnjost


ipak dišem zar ne
to je sigurno znak
to je sigurno znak
da je svemir na mojoj strani
ako sam dogurala dovde
mogu i do kraja


ljubav prema meni samoj izvest će me iz tame


nisi je izgubila
sreća je uvijek bila uz tebe
-samo si izgubila perspektivu


želim paradu
želim glazbu
želim konfete
želim limenu glazbu
za one koji su preživjeli šutke
želim aplauz na nogama
za svaku osobu koja
se probudi i krene prema suncu
dok ih sjena u njima
povlači natrag



Paige Arnold

My intentions were just to skim through few pages. But it was such a quick and easy read that I ended up finishing the whole book at one go. While some of the poems are just meaningful statements, the other ones are quite beautifully written. The book starts with dark topics such as anxiety, depression and ends up with a lot of uplifting poems about self worth. Liked it.

Adwait Kulkarni

As a woman in my thirties, I found this book a bit more relatable than her first work. It’s dark, painful, yet empowering. A simple reminder that our mind and body, sometimes disconnected, will eventually fall in love with one another someday. Milk and Honey will always be a favorite of mine, but some pieces in this book make for a close second. 

Emphatically not for me, she seems cool though.

Laurel 

Jun Angelo Cabuguas

Isabella Castañeda R.

Leer a Rupi es como un mimo al alma. A pesar de ser criticada por su poesía, ella sigue escribiendo. Ese espíritu resiliente que tiene, deja huella. Imposible soltar sus libros. Imposible soltarla a ella. Sin embargo, comparto que la imposibilidad de soltarla no radica en su poesía, sino en su vulnerabilidad. Ella suele presentar a una Rupi bastante humana, que se puede apreciar mucho más que la Rupi poeta. Al final de este libro, esa primera Rupi me sorprendió, pero me hubiese gustado llevarme la sorpresa en un momento más temprano de la lectura, cuando todavía tenía una expectativa algo elevada por el contenido de su tercer libro.

Dora Tominic

Disclaimer: this is not a review.

I search for something else in poetry.

Callie Stull

Major trigger warnings for this book. It discusses many issues like rape, sexual assault, depression, suicide, etc. Very good, the author is very well-spoken and when I started this book it was hard to put down. Obviously its poetry, and often I will pull this back out and read a few before I go to bed at night.

Connected to it personally, was happy to read it all in one day :)

Susan

Kendall Mermuys

A revised hardcover edition of the #1 New York Times bestseller home body by rupi kaur, author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers milk and honey and the sun and her flowers. Rupi's long-awaited hardcover edition debuts exclusive poems and is beautifully clothbound and foil stamped. rupi kaur constantly embraces growth, and in home body, she walks readers through a reflective and intimate journey visiting the past, the present, and the potential of the self. home body is a collection of raw, honest conversations with oneself - reminding readers to fill up on love, acceptance, community, family, and embrace change. illustrated by the author, themes of nature and nurture, light and dark, rest here. i dive into the well of my body and end up in another world everything i need already exists in me there’s no need to look anywhere else —home

chloe ✩‧₊˚✧｡*ﾟ

I liked it but Its not worth the $25 I paid for it 😐

Maria

I think this was the only Rupi Kaur's collection that I was able to finish. I couldn't really get into her earlier works in "honey and milk" and "the sun and her flowers".

What I like about this collection is it's about the self and its internal world. I wouldn't say I liked all of them but a good half of them at least. They all capture really well the feelings and struggles of being a woman in a sexist world, being a minority, and feeling blue.

She’s done it again. Absolutely incredible!!

Keira

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of milk and honey and the sun and her flowers comes her greatly anticipated third collection of poetry. rupi kaur constantly embraces growth, and in home body, she walks readers through a reflective and intimate journey visiting the past, the present, and the potential of the self. home body is a collection of raw, honest conversations with oneself - reminding readers to fill up on love, acceptance, community, family, and embrace change. illustrated by the author, themes of nature and nurture, light and dark, rest here. i dive into the well of my body and end up in another world everything i need already exists in me there’s no need to look anywhere else - home

Addie 🌻

I feel as if I’ve read it all before…

Revised Hardback Edition

Shona Tiger

I like some of the words, but the illustrations are particularly delightful.

Ivy X

2.5 
Not the biggest fan of this book -- there were some good sections but a lot of it felt very tumblr. 

Quotes: 
- Why do i let my mind
get under my skin
i am so sensitive 

-my chest collapses into my stomach knowing that i have to get up in the morning and pretend i'm not fading away all over again. 

- abuse doesn't just happen 
in romantic relationships
abuse can live in friendships too 

-you lose everything 
when you don't love yourself 
and gain everything when you do 

-what i went through
pulled a warrior out of me
and it is my greatest honor to be her

-sometimes 
i love you means 
i want to love you 

sometimes 
i love you means
I'll stay little while longer

sometimes 
i love you means 
i'm not sure how to leave

sometimes 
i love you means
i have nowhere else to go 

- if you're waiting for them 
to make you feel like you're enough 
you'll be waiting a long time 

-your partner is supposed to 
enrich your life
not drain it 
staying when it hurts is not love 

-i measure my self-worth 
by how productive I've been 
but no matter
how hard i work
i still feel inadequate 

-isn't the dream
that i have a mother to call 
and a table to eat breakfast at 

instead i'm lost in the sick need
to optimize every hour of my day

-i miss knowing i once belonged 
to a group of people bigger than myself
that belonging made life easier to live

Pipsy Roque

After disliking one of the author's other book I decided to give it another try. 
And yet again my thoughts wouldn't go past the fact that all was so so so basic... I felt I was 13 and spending time reading things on tumblr all over again.

Stef

" our minds erase trauma to help us move on but every experience i’ve had is memorized in my flesh even if my mind forgets my body remembers my body is the map of my life my body wears what it’s been through my body signals the alarms when it thinks danger is coming and suddenly the hungry little demons from my past come raging out of my flesh screaming don’t you forget us don’t you ever try to leave us behind again."

From the Number One Sunday Times bestselling author of milk and honey and the sun and her flowers comes her greatly anticipated third collection of poetry. rupi kaur constantly embraces growth, and in home body, she walks readers through a reflective and intimate journey visiting the past, the present and the potential of the self. home body is a collection of raw, honest conversations with oneself - reminding readers to fill up on love, acceptance, community, family, and embrace change. illustrated by the author, themes of nature and nurture, light and dark, rest here. i dive into the well of my body and end up in another world everything i need already exists in me there’s no need to look anywhere else - home

Bold, feminist, enriched with lines that read like affirmations. F*CK a coffee table book, put this on your table instead.

Kate B-L

Sofia Arcângelo 

I love the message in Rupi Kaur books. The way she writes about trauma, social injustice, racism, feminism, self empowerment, is so important.
We tend to ignore ourselves, but self-care is imperative.

"there is a conversation
happening inside you
pay deep attention
to what your inner world
is saying"

It's not so much about poetry, or the traditional structure of poetry, as many criticise , it's about the message that this book sends. 

"make it a point
to love yourself
as fiercely as you do other people"

I've become a fierce admirer of Rupi Kaur books.

Pien van Nunen

Irene Alegre

I think I read three or four poems in this collection before I decided I was not going to continue. I'm not someone who shies away from heavy topics, but this felt like torture porn, over and over. Sexual abuse, depression, more sexual abuse, relationship abuse... I'm not invalidating the author's feelings or experiences, but at the same time it felt somewhat gratuitous and written for shock value.

I'm not familiar with the rest of this author's work, so I can't comment on the quality of this book versus her previous poetry, but I don't think I'll read more from her.

Katie Leuteritz

Rupi Kaur wrote another wonderful book of heartbreak, loss, growth, trauma, and healing. No matter how I am feeling she has poem that can but my emotions into words. Everytime I pick up one of her books I learn something new. As much as I did like this book, I feel like some of her other poem collections focus a bit more on the inspiration after the situation than this one did. While life is not always a happy ending, it can feel nice to not only understand that others have gone though the same thing, but they have found hope, and therefore you can too.

Sean Valencia Monte

interesting... this is the first poetry book that I've read and it confused me a bit. I liked the message on some parts, but I was genuinely perplexed in certain areas because it was talking about this thing and then it started to talk about another thing. It felt all over the place, but maybe that's the point of poetry ??? Not sure if this is my thing but it was cool to read it.

Home Body

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