Milk and Honey

the sun and her flowers by Rupi Kaur (2017)

Similar to milk and honey, this collection is divided into five sections and is about healing by becoming comfortable with the self. the sun and her flowers also uses only lowercase and line drawing illustrations. The subtitles chronicle a journey from “Wilting” and “Falling” to “Rooting,” “Rising,” and “Blooming.”

home body by Rupi Kaur (2020)

Like her previous collections, Kaur’s third volume uses her signature style, accompanied with illustrations. This collection is divided into four sections: “Mind,” “Heart,” “Rest,” and “Awake.” It features familiar topics, including anxiety, sexual assault, rape, love, and eventually, hope. 

Healing Through Words by Rupi Kaur (2022)

This workbook contains exercises designed to explore readers’ feelings and illuminate Kaur’s writing process. The book features open-ended prompts like: “If I could sit with the men in my lineage, I would tell them ________.” There are also more directed exercises, such as considering a topic, making a drawing about it, describing the feelings the drawing brings up, choosing this description’s most important words, and then expanding. 

milk and honey: tenth anniversary edition by Rupi Kaur (2024)

The reissue includes a new introduction, as well as a new section titled “The Remembering,” which features 40 new poems and 20 new illustrations.