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Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur — WisdomDeck honest review
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Milk and Honey

by Rupi Kaur

Kaur's bestselling poetry collection in four parts, hurting, loving, breaking, healing, with short free-verse pieces and line drawings. Readers either find it raw and healing or slight; it brought millions to poetry.

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Read it if…

you are processing hurt and want short, direct poems.

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Skip it if…

you want formal poetry.

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Three things you will actually use

  1. Naming pain begins healing.
  2. Simplicity reaches people.
  3. You are enough.

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Read the healing section slowly.

Our verdict

Raw, divisive, reaching.

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