In fact, she’s not even that well regarded by many critics. Which is probably why there was such an uproar when Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize for Literature: even his most surrealistic songs seem comprehensible when compared to those written by the critically acclaimed poets of today. Eliot’s 1921 dictum that “poets in our civilization, as it exists at present, must be difficult” – poets are difficult. We certainly don’t know all the reasons for this abysmal statistic, but one of them must be the way poems are written in this day and age. That’s a decline of 45 percent within a decade! Just for an illustration, according to the 2015 National Endowment for the Arts survey of arts participation, only 6.7 percent of the American population has read at least one poem during the past year. Unfortunately, people don’t enjoy poetry nowadays as much as they used to. We start with milk and honey, “a collection of poetry and prose about survival… about the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity.” Who Should Read “milk and honey”? And Why?

They are understanding and compassionate they are mystical and healing

To honor her – as well as show our appreciation for her work – we decided to make her two books ( milk and honey and the sun and her flowers) the first two collections of poetry summarized on our site.Ĭonsider that our gift to you, a way of paying Rupi’s gift of poetry forward.ĭo the same: buy her books and gift them to someone you love preferably a female especially if she’s hurting. Yesterday was Rupi Kaur’s 26 th birthday.

Milk and honey love poems