BOOK REVIEW: HOME BODY

“Our pain is the doorway to our joy”

--- Rupi Kaur home body

home body is a fascinating poetry book. It touches the heart of the reader. Like its title, it gives the feeling of home, safe and secure.

Rupi Kaur's third book “home body” was published in 2020. I read Milk and Honey, The Sun and her Flowers as well. But my curiosity to read her books and get charmed, love, and peace, was what I can’t wait more and get my hands on this book of her. Rupi's writing gives a different feeling to explore and experience.

Rupi's writing always gives me a feeling like she hugs her reader and tries to solace and give comfort. It's like someone is sitting just beside the reader and let him/her feel safe and home around.

“you didn’t lose it happiness has always been here,
- you just lost perspective”

Rupi has a gifted quality that her poetry not only reaches the reader in the best way but makes them feel healing and beautiful. That's why I love her all (three) books.

home body is also divided into four sections.

1. Mind

This part reflects the readers’ personality to themselves. It works like a mirror. How we feel or what we think in that way we will perceive that section. Like overthinking is common for a modern person. Sometimes thinking about good things, sometimes thinking about sad things. It's not the same for always. So it shows how our mindset matters.

“The mountains I built from all the shit people tried to stone me to death with - warrior”

2. Heart

Have you ever experience love? If not, then still read this part. People who are broken, people who are in one-sided love feel soothe while reading this section. What I experience was an incredibly spontaneous feeling. 

“If someone doesn't have a heart you can't go around offering them yours”

I read the Heart section, find a person to love and to be loved. Indeed, don't get it wrong. It's me. I find myself through her poetry. Let go of things that hurt and give chance to myself is what I learn. There are several deep lines that I read twice, thrice just to feel that feeling again and again.

“you are lonely
but you are not alone
- there is a difference.”

3. Rest

After pain, what the body need is rest. But in this small section, the writer introduces us to the rest of the disturbed body, wandering soul, restless life. By telling her own life experiences, she caresses the reader. Feels closer to the heart.

It presents the view of productivity from anxiety and how our elders are most valuable to us. Then, she tells us that in a materialistic world, luxurious life, the only thing we need is rest. We are running behind things, which will give nothing like internal peace. The reader knew that we have to take rest from overthinking, feeling bad, down, from everything that sucks.

“on days you can’t hear yourself
slow down to
let your mind and body
catch up to each other
- stillness”

4. Awake

The last section is always my favorite section. Awakening is the best feeling. In other words, awakening is healing. Through this section, the reader comes to know how worth he/she is. The reader loves the body and everything about himself/herself. Self-love is also important to bring peace to the mind.

Rupi Kaur teaches loving our body, accepting our imperfections, and embracing everything that is within us. An exposure to feel splendid to ourselves.

“It’s easy to love
the nice things about ourselves
but true self-love is
embracing the difficult parts
that lives in all of us
- acceptance”

This section is summing up all previous sections in one. How mind, body, and rest work to self-awakening. Fight for ourselves, for the right things to bring peace and love.

*Themes

In the end, Rupi Kaur's themes like love, loss, trauma, sufferings, migration, femininity, and healing. Because of her themes, her poetry has universality.

 I fall for her poetry, I can't deny it. I cry, smile, hate, healing while reading her poetry books. I experience the best things also.

“My mind, my body and I, all live in one place but it feels like we are three completely different people.

- disconnected”

Read her all books, I recommend to all the readers to go for it.

I am thankful to the special person, who suggests her books.