Soon, the Canadian-Indian poet kept popping up in conversations, and I found references to her and her blank-verse poems all around me. Turns out, she was the woman whose photograph of herself lying on a bed with menstrual bloodstained sheets and pants, had created a stir. I’m not sure why it hit a nerve, but that post led me deeper into the Rupi rabbit hole. It stood out effortlessly in all of Instagram’s visual clutter. It was more than a year ago when Instagram popped up one of her posts as a recommendation – her clean font, lower caps everything, against a scrawl-ish illustration of a woman with her back turned to the reader. In 2022, Kaur released her fourth book, 'Healing Through Word'.I remember exactly when I first stumbled upon Rupi Kaur’s work. She was also regarded as "writer of the decade" by the New Republic and recognised on the Forbes 30 under 30 list. These collections have sold over 11 million copies and have been translated into over 43 languages, with Milk and Honey surpassing Homer's Odyssey as the best-selling poetry of all time, according to Kaur's website. The Sun and her Flowers (2017) and Home Body (2020) are among the other titles that Kaur has written.
She commented on Instagram about a ban that went into effect in two states last year, according to NBC News. This isn't the first time Kaur responded to her book being banned. Many actually seek these books out because they're going through those experiences themselves," she wrote.
"Parents want to ban books to protect their kids but teachers and librarians say that students are old enough to be aware of the topics discussed in these books. Kaur's other works encompass subjects of love, loss, trauma, healing, femininity, and migration.
"It deeply concerns me that there is a group of people hell-bent on taking away literature that students find refuge in," Punjab-born Kaur wrote in an Instagram post last week.Īpart from violence, the rest of the titles in the list discussed race and racism, LGBTQ+ characters, grief or death, student health and well-being, teen pregnancy, abortion or sexual assault.
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