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Home Body

Home Body

PoetryEssays
Pages
192
Published
2020
Language
English

Synopsis

Rupi Kaur's third collection is a journey inward, moving through the past, present, and future as it explores the relationship each of us has with our own body and mind.

Written in her signature spare free verse with accompanying line drawings, the poems take up mental health, trauma and recovery, self-love, rest, sexuality, and empowerment. Kaur turns her attention from romantic love toward the harder, quieter work of coming home to oneself — accepting the body, tending to the mind, and finding worth from within rather than without.

Reflective and affirming, "home body" reads as an invitation to slow down, heal, and root yourself in self-acceptance.

Prose complexity
1/10

Vibe

ReflectiveHopefulInspiringEmotional

Genres

Poetry Essays

About the author

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Rupi Kaur

Rupi Kaur is a Canadian poet, illustrator, photographer and author, born on 4 October 1992 in Punjab, India. Her family emigrated to Canada when she was three and settled in Brampton, Ontario. She studied rhetoric and professional writing at the University of Waterloo and began sharing her poems and line drawings on Instagram in 2013. She self-published her debut collection, milk and honey, in 2014, and it was later picked up by Andrews McMeel Publishing. Her other collections are the sun and he...

Frequently asked questions

  • How does Home Body compare to Rupi Kaur's previous collections?

    Home Body continues Rupi Kaur's signature style of short, accessible poems accompanied by illustrations, but it delves more deeply into themes of mental health and the process of healing from past trauma, offering a more introspective and vulnerable perspective than her earlier works.

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