The Sun and Her Flowers

hardcover, 256 pages

Published Sept. 24, 2019 by Andrews McMeel Publishing.

ISBN:
978-1-4494-9576-3
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3 stars (2 reviews)

Divided into five chapters and illustrated by Kaur, the sun and her flowers is a journey of wilting, falling, rooting, rising, and blooming. A celebration of love in all its forms.

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4 stars

Many of the poems have accompanying artwork, spare depictions of scenes in lines and curves, but never complex. Kaur uses white space simply, and decreases the length of the line sometimes to be more percussive, while letting some lines wax further, usually with more multisyllabic words. Some pages have a single line like “you break women in like shoes” One poem, “questions,” uses anaphora quite a lot, and the title poem uses italicized dialogue, and, because most of the poem is a conversation (“together we are an endless conversation,” she adds later), we realize the deliberate engagement in love that is often absent from her other pieces. My favorite in this vein is “- our souls are mirrors,” which I will not quote here but hope you go seek it.

The poems are about love (“a double-edged knife”), addiction, immigration, betrayal, loss, self-love, therapy, motherhood, insecurity, and (in a dramatic …