Name: Home Body
Rating: 3.801566579634465 (383 reviews)
ISBN: 9781501175312

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

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

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

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.

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.

Home Body

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