The Sun and Her Flowers

by Rupi Kaur Narrated by Rupi Kaur

Overview

Notes From Your Bookseller

After the wildly successful milk & honey, Rupi Kaur set a high bar for herself, but she cleared it with the sun & her flowers. In this beautiful, allegorical poetry collection, Kaur provides more heartfelt optimism and hope that soothes like a reassuring hug right when you need it.

Rupi Kaur performs the first-ever recording of the sun and her flowers, her second #1 New York Times bestselling collection of poetry and prose. This production was recorded in 2021 along with the brand-new audio edition of milk and honey and the debut audio recording of home body.

Divided into five chapters, this volume is a journey through the life cycle of wilting, falling, rooting, rising, and blooming. It is a celebration of love in all its forms.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

"Rupi Kaur is Kicking Down the Doors of Publishing” (The New York Times)

"At age 24, Rupi Kaur has been called the voice of her generation." (USA Today)

“Rupi Kaur sits atop a new wave in poetry.” (The Wall Street Journal)

“Perhaps the best-known poet in the English-speaking world at this point” (Bustle)

"Rupi Kaur reinvents poetry ... (she) is undeniably equipped with the poet’s ability to articulate emotions that readers struggle to make sense of.” (The Economist)

“Outselling Homer Ten to One” (New York Magazine)

"The Poet Who Touched a Nerve" (The Times (London))

“there’s no denying that Rupi Kaur is currently one of the most — if not the most — popular poets in America …” (Boston Globe)

"Rupi Kaur is a rock star."  (The Kansas City Star)

School Library Journal

★ 05/01/2018
Kaur, author of the immensely popular Milk and Honey, writes and sketches in the same plain, honest, and shattering style about healing. Her fresh, poignant metaphor of a broken relationship as an abandoned construction site sets the stage for the structured volume, divided into sections ("wilting," "falling," "rooting," "rising," and "blooming"): "it isn't what we left behind/that breaks me/but what we could have built/had we stayed." Kaur then asks, "do you think flowers will grow here/when you and i are off/building something new/with someone else." The author frames several longer prose poems graphically as books within a book in which she digs into the root causes of her mistakes and her inspiration, such as her cultural upbringing to never speak up and the sacrifices of her mother, an East Indian immigrant, respectively. Kaur exudes a wisdom and reverence for life that she melds with the social justice ideals of feminism and equity. She speaks to teens' struggles to accept, to forgive, and to love with intensity and respect: "when i stopped searching for home within others and lifted the foundation of home within myself…there were no roots more intimate." VERDICT A must-buy for poetry collections.—Sara Lissa Paulson, City-As-School High School, New York City

Product Details

BN ID:	2940172959967
Publisher:	Simon & Schuster
Publication date:	11/02/2021
Edition description:	Unabridged
Sales rank:	617,960

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