Title: the sun and herflowers
Writer: rupi kaur
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Year: 2017
Pages: 256
IBSN-13: 9781449486792
Mark: 9/10
SYNOPSIS
Divided into five chapters and illustrated by Kaur, the
sun and her flowers is a journey of wilting, falling, rooting, rising, and
blooming. A celebration of love in all its forms.
this is the recipe of life
said my mother
as she held me in her arms as i wept
think of those flowers you plant
in the garden each year
they will teach you
that people too
must wilt
fall
root
rise
in order to bloom.
PERSONAL ASSESSMENT
I had this book in my Amazon wishlist since last year,
when I saw it on Instagram in a literature account. I read the review that that
person had written and immediately I decided that I had to read that book. Due
to things that happen in the life, I have been buying other books, I postponed
the purchase of this book. Until I was in Oslo, as I have said in the review of
‘milk and honey’, that I bought
the first book and I fell in love so hard with it that when I finished it I
bought the second book. I longed to fall in love as hard as I did with the
first. And indeed I did it!
PLOT
As ‘milk and honey’, ‘the sun and her flowers’ is a
collection of poems that differs a lot from what it has traditionally been a
collection of poems. It is not composed by sonnets or poems with a prefixed
meter and rhyme, instead they are another kind of free verse. We can find poems
made up by few words or poems that can last few pages. The difference with the
first book is that ‘milk and honey’ has an inner structure more marked, it
follows a more intertwined themes, wilting, falling, rooting, rising and
blooming, all of them related to the sun (the source of life) and the flowers
(a metaphor for people).
WRITING STYLE
As I said in the other review, rupi has a plain
writing style, easy to read and veeery pleasing to the eye. She doesn’t use
capital letters nor punctuation marks, which makes the reading easy and
enjoyable, as well as giving the poem an unusual aesthetic. This book also has
writer’s sketches and drawings, embellishing and enlivening it.
GENERAL COMMENT
When I started to read the book I expected a ‘milk and
honey’ 2.0 and I disappointed me a bit. It seemed to me that at the beginning
of the book I won’t like it as much as the other. It took me more time to
connect with this book. Even some poems seemed to me too long. But the essence
of rupi was there and, when I eventually understood the message of the book, I
understood its form and its poems, and I could enjoy it as a whole. So, when
you read this book do not expect or compare it with the first one, read it as
another different book in order to enjoy it and to be able to fall in love with
it, and let it transmit you those feelings, as can only be made by rupi with
her minimalist style.
-Saru
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